Ecosystems such as forests, wetlands and grasslands play an important role in the global water cycle. Recognizing this role and the interactions between the two is critical to managing water ...

Protecting the Water Cycle is vital to keeping humans, animals, and the environment healthy. ... A functioning ecosystem can filter out some pollution, but it can only do so much.

Ecosystems in the Global Water Cycle. Vladimir Smakhtin, Saturday 17 Mar 2018. There are a number of challenges to large-scale implementation of ecosystem-centric approaches in water management.

The study provides the first experimental demonstration of the potential impacts of climate change on water movement through grassland ecosystems, which make up nearly 40% of Earth's land area and ...

Wildfires profoundly influence the unseen microbial world within our waters, directly impacting water quality and ecosystem health, according to a study presented at ASM Microbe 2025.

"We broke the hydrological cycle," Henk Ovink, the Netherlands special envoy for international water affairs, told New Scientist. "Now we have to bring it back." Explore More ...

Research reshapes understanding of terrestrial water cycle, implications for climate and ecosystem health Date: January 9, 2025 ... plants are not even represented on water cycle diagrams, ...

In a recently published paper, NASA scientists use nearly 20 years of observations to show that the global water cycle is shifting in unprecedented ways. The majority of those shifts are driven by ...

Understanding this and other changes in the water cycle is important for more than preparing for disasters. Water is an essential resource for all ecosystems and human societies, and particularly ...

'Ghost forests' threaten New Jersey's water, ecosystem . The state has lost over 100,000 acres of Atlantic white cedar. ... The situation was part of a cycle where past climate change events, ...