NASA scientists have uncovered significant changes in the global water cycle over the past two decades, largely driven by ...

NASA scientists have uncovered significant human-driven changes in the global water cycle over the past two decades.

The information is a missing piece of the puzzle in understanding the global water cycle and how that cycle is being altered by changes in land use and climate. A new study led by scientists in ...

In a recently published paper to PNAS, scientists described how the global freshwater cycle has been altered due to climate ...

The study provides the first experimental demonstration of the potential impacts of climate change on water movement through grassland ecosystems ... in Earth's water cycle.

One of the most important biogeochemical cycles in wetlands is the nitrogen cycle ... to wetland and aquatic ecosystems. Because of the predominance of water and anaerobic conditions in wetlands ...

Water is a key compound for life on Earth. All living organisms need water. Some can survive in a dormant state without it for long periods of time, but all organisms will quickly or eventually ...

The majority of those shifts are driven by activities such as agriculture and could have impacts on ecosystems and water ... based on assumptions that the water cycle fluctuates only within ...

"If we want to predict the effects of climate change on Earth's water resources, we need data showing how the hydrologic cycle will respond ... for the ability of ecosystems to withstand and ...