The grass is greener, but surface improvements tell only part of the story.
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The existing plans and commitments to reduce water use don’t add up to even half of the savings that are needed to keep the river flowing.
Even though annual precipitation is rising nationally, the landscape is drying out more rapidly. That’s changing the water cycle.
Water is very heavy – and it can move. Until now, changes to water on land have actually offset much of the rising sea level from ice melt. How? Gravity
Mosquito populations can respond quickly to changing climate, which means the location of areas at risk of malaria might change.
These giant rivers in the sky are both destructive and essential for the Western U.S. water supply.
Qanats are an ancient system which could be a useful way of getting water to farms in arid areas.
On one stretch of Nottingham’s River Trent, floods that arrived every 50 years now return in ten.
A recent study focusing on how offshore wind farms in Massachusetts waters could affect endangered right whales does not call for slowing the projects, but says monitoring will be critical.
Saltwater intrusion is bad for human health, ecosystems, crops and infrastructure. Here’s how seawater can move inland, and why climate change is making this phenomenon more frequent and severe.
New research shows turning northern rivers inland to irrigate Australia’s dry interior would not increase rainfall. This is another argument against the Bradfield scheme.
The Angolan Highlands are hydrologically and ecologically important - and the region’s newly mapped peatlands are valuable “carbon sinks”.
Record low water levels on the Mississippi and other major rivers, as seen in 2022, could become more common, threatening transportation of many key goods and raising prices.
Extreme weather is set to dominate our future – can collecting rainwater reduce the threat posed by both drought and flooding?
A couple weeks of rain doesn’t make up for months of dry weather.
The world’s great rivers are see-sawing from trickles to floods.
‘Green water’ is essential for healthy soils and a benign climate, but it’s under threat.
By mismanaging its forestry road system, Québec and the forestry companies operating in public forests have made significant savings, to the detriment of protecting aquatic environments.
Beavers in our landscapes have great potential to provide small-scale adaptations to climate change – if humans can figure out how to live with them.
It’s about developing a community of practice: people who can work alongside scientists, taking science out of the laboratory and into the field.
Top contributors
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Professor of Oceanography, Old Dominion University
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Extraordinary Associate Professor of Anthropology and Water Sciences, University of the Western Cape
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Assistant Professor of Earth, Ocean & Environment, University of South Carolina
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Professor of Conservation Technology in Environment and Engineering, Duke University
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Director, Delaware Environmental Institute, and Professor of Earth Sciences and Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Delaware
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Working Group Leader, Terrestrial Safe Operating Space, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
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Global Professor in Water & Planetary Health, University of Lincoln
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Principal Hydrologist, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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Senior lecturer, Nelson Mandela University
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Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science and Engineering, Harvard University
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Hydrologist, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes, University of California, San Diego
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Regius Professor of Meteorology and Climate Science, University of Reading
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Researcher and Theme leader, Anthropocene Dynamics, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
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Professor of Snow Hydrology, Colorado State University
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Professor of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University