BYU's new hydrologic cycle, representing major water pools in blue text, natural water fluxes in black text and human-impacted fluxes in orange. Illustration by Eliza Anderson. The United States ...

The water cycle that shuttles Earth’s most vital resource around in an unending, life-giving loop is in trouble. Climate change has disrupted that cycle’s delicate balance, upsetting how water ...

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 ...

Water scarcity might seem like a distant problem in a world where three-quarters of the planet's surface is water. Yet this ...

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 ...

Water is a defining characteristic of life. Where there is water, there is life, and without water life as we know it does not exist. Nothing is more fundamental to human wellbeing than access to ...

The global monsoon region, sprawling north and south from the Earth's equator, sustains nearly two-thirds of the world's population. It is characterized with abundant monsoon rainfall, a distinct ...

Diagrams of the earth’s water cycle used in education and research throughout the world are in urgent need of updating to show the effects of human interference, according to new analysis by a BYU-led ...

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 ...

Even if you’ve been living under a rock, you have experienced the Water Cycle in action. Rain falling from the sky, water seeping into the ground, a flowing river, plant roos sucking up moisture; each ...

A few months ago I had the equivalent of a science education “mini-rant” in Forbes. I thought about K-12 class lessons about the water cycle, and the glaring omission in all of them. If you are old ...

Infinitely useful, water is often taken for granted until it’s either not there or there is too much of it. Droughts, floods or contaminated drinking water make headlines. But for most of us, filling ...