Humanity has thrown the global water cycle off balance “for the first time in human history,” fueling a growing water disaster that will wreak havoc on economies, food production and lives, according ...

Cracked mud and salt on the valley floor in Death Valley National Park in California can become a reflective pool after rains. In a recently published paper, NASA scientists use nearly 20 years of ...

Floods, droughts and heat waves continue to dominate headlines around the world and in Australia. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. In the past few days, hundreds of ...

Human activity is changing the way water flows between the Earth and atmosphere in complex ways and with likely long-lasting consequences that are hard to picture. Researchers enlisted water ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aug. 9—For many students, water science in schools is limited to learning the basics about the water cycle. Still, when one ...

A new study examining global freshwater resources has revealed that human actions have significantly altered the planet’s freshwater cycle. So how will these changes impact our water supply and by ...