Fresh water cycles from ocean to air to clouds to rivers and back to the oceans. This constant shuttling can give us the illusion of certainty. Fresh water will always come from the tap. Won’t it?

The hydrological cycle is a fundamental natural process for keeping Earth’s operating system intact. Humanity and civilization are intimately dependent on the water cycle, but we have manipulated it ...

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 ...

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 ...

Floods, droughts and heatwaves continue to dominate headlines around the world and in Australia. In the past few days, hundreds of bushfires have ignited in south-east Australia during an extreme ...

Did you know that the total amount of water on Earth is fixed? The amount of water is neither gained nor lost between the Earth and its atmosphere. Water is a compound of two elements, hydrogen and ...