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 ...

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 ...

Against a backdrop of intensifying climate extremes, the WEF has designated 2026 as the ‘Year of Water’, signalling a push to ...

2024 was another year of record-breaking temperatures, driving the global water cycle to new climate extremes and contributing to ferocious floods and crippling droughts, a new report shows. The ...

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 ...

A new study provides the first comprehensive global estimates of the amount of water stored in Earth's plants and the amount of time it takes for that water to flow through them. The information is a ...

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China set out to halt dust storms, reclaim deserts and lock away carbon by planting trees at a scale no country had attempted before. In the process, it has unintentionally rewritten how water moves ...