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 ...
Powerful storm systems triggered flash flooding across the U.S. in late July, killing more than three dozen people in eastern Kentucky as floodwater engulfed homes and set off mudslides. Record ...
AUSTIN (KXAN) – Water is facing an uncertain future amid the global climate crisis. In Central Texas, extreme droughts and rapid development have placed the fate of our water supply in doubt. Similar ...
A research team has used changing patterns of salt in the ocean to estimate that between 1970 and 2014, at least two times more freshwater shifted from the equator to the poles than our climate models ...
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 ...
If you liked this story, share it with other people. The hydrological cycle is a fundamental natural process for keeping Earth’s operating system intact. Humanity and civilization are intimately ...
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 ...