The global water cycle is off balance for the "first time in human history." Researchers have warned that this lack of balance could lead to a massive water disaster, which could terrorize the ...

For the first time in recorded history the system that moves water around the planet is off balance, according to a landmark new report. Water moves around the world in "atmospheric rivers" as part of ...

Climate change is making the Earth’s water cycle increasingly erratic, resulting in extreme swings between deluge and drought across the world, the United Nations has warned. The UN’s World ...

As the planet continues to warm, this cycle is expected to be increasingly stretched, warped and broken. The water cycle that shuttles Earth’s most vital resource around in an unending, life-giving ...

Professor, Water and Landscape Dynamics, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University In 2022, a third La Niña year brought much rain to Australia and Southeast Asia and dry ...

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 ...

Prolonged droughts, wildfires and water shortages. Torrential downpours that overwhelm dams and cause catastrophic flooding. Around the globe, rising temperatures stoked by climate change are ...

I TRAVEL a lot for work, and everywhere I go people talk about rain. I was in Uganda last November and heard grumbles that the rainy season had failed to arrive. In Albania in March, I read about ...

Mathew Barlow received travel funding from the US government to attend three IPCC lead author meetings. Studies by scientists around the world show that the water cycle has been intensifying and will ...

Wildfires, deforestation and global warming could permanently destroy the water cycle that sustains parts of the Amazon rainforest if action is not taken in the coming decades, according to a study ...