For the first time in recorded history the system that moves water around the planet is off balance, according to a landmark new report. Water moves around the world in "atmospheric rivers" as part of ...

The European Space Agency's first Scout mission, HydroGNSS, was launched today, 28 November, marking a significant step in ...

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, according ...

The Earth’s oceans have risen and fallen over the millennia. But they have, on average, been relatively stable over billions of years. The balance of the deep water cycle—the exchange of water between ...

ESA explains that navigation satellites – such as GPS and Galileo – transmit L-band microwave signals. And that these change when reflected off Earth’s surface. HydroGNSS will compare the reflected ...

Earth’s spin is not as steady as it looks. As ice melts and groundwater is pumped from deep aquifers to the surface, the ...

In a remarkable scientific breakthrough, researchers have discovered an astonishing underground water reservoir located deep beneath Earth’s surface, potentially containing three times more water than ...

Earth may have had fresh, not just salty, water as soon as 600 million years after the planet formed — a mere blink of an eye in geologic time. Researchers analyzed oxygen molecules within ...

Small Yellowstone quakes changed deep groundwater chemistry and boosted hidden microbes. The study shows how shaking can ...