An artist’s impression of how Mars could have looked billions of years ago, with an ocean covering part of its surface. NASA/GSFC When you were at school, you likely learned about the Earth’s water ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. There's a hole in the Martian atmosphere that opens once every two years, venting the planet's ...

The global water cycle has become “increasingly erratic and extreme” with wild swings between droughts and floods, spelling big trouble for economies and societies, according to a report published ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article was originally featured on Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. Hidden inside the Earth ...

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 ...

Data about Mars’ planetary crust gathered from the Mars InSight lander are best explained by the conclusion that the crust has stores of liquid water. Analysis led by Vashan Wright, a geophysicist at ...

Powerful storm systems triggered flash flooding across the U.S. in late July, inundating St. Louis neighborhoods with record rainfall and setting off mudslides in eastern Kentucky, where at least 16 ...