Residents of Snjay Camp in New Delhi fill plastic containers with water from a tanker in June 2026. Severe heatwaves mean that some areas of India's capital experience water shortages in the summer.

The losses in soil moisture already pose issues for farming, irrigation systems and critical water resources for humans. But new research shows how the declines are contributing to sea-level rise ...

Any home gardener knows they have to tailor their watering regime for different plants. Forgetting to water their flowerbed ...

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 ...

Knowledge of the water cycle is essential to understand the effects of drought on forests. The forest on Hönggerberg in the north of Zurich is both, a recreational space and a laboratory. The Forest ...

Over the past 20 years, soil moisture has decreased by over 2,000 gigatons, more than twice Greenland's ice loss from 2002 to 2006. This shift of water from land to ocean exacerbates agricultural ...

A hotter atmosphere sucks up more water vapor from bodies of water and vegetation and soil. Over land, this atmospheric demand and loss of surface moisture leads to longer and more intense ...

In other places, it might be part of a glacier. Or the water could be inside a frog, a cloud, or a clump of soil. The water cycle helps keep us supplied with fresh, clean water. But sometimes the ...

The consequences will be even more catastrophic without urgent action. The water crisis threatens more than 50% of global food production and risks shaving an average of 8% off countries’ GDPs ...