The water cycle refers to the complex system by which water moves around the Earth. Water evaporates from the ground — including from lakes, rivers and plants — and rises into the atmosphere ...

Much progress is possible. In fact, due to the dedicated efforts of governments and NGOs since the 1992 Earth Summit, safe drinking water has been made available to some 1.7 billion people around ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. By pumping water out of the ground, humans have shifted such a large mass ...

the early Earth was covered in a magma ocean - a layer of molten rock hundreds of miles deep that was melted by the energy released during the collision. Any water present would only exist as water ...

The Earth may not have been born dry, but wet, with water reservoirs from the Big Bang stored within its foundational rocks. A new study uses data from the European Space Agency 's (ESA ...

The overheating of our planet and resulting changes to climates across the globe are bad news for much of life on Earth — but ...

K. E. Seetharam, Founding Director, Institute of Water Policy; Visiting Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore Daniel Stellar, Assistant Director, Columbia ...

Researchers say climate change has the potential to increase mosquito numbers and the transmissibility of mosquito-borne ...