Dam construction since 1835 has caused Earth's poles to "wander" away from the planet's rotational axis because of the ...

Over the past two centuries, humans have locked up enough water in dams to shift Earth's poles slightly away from the ...

Sea level on Earth has been rising and falling ever since there was water on the planet. Scientists were already able to use ...

It's difficult to overstate just how surprisingly early to the party this water may have been. “This suggests that water, the ...

A study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that increases in salinity in seawater ...

The Caspian Sea is the planet’s largest inland sea and its largest lake, an enormous body of water roughly the size of Montana. Its looping coastline stretches more than 4,000 miles and is ...

Water temperatures have surged above 85 degrees in the Mediterranean Sea, where records have been broken every day for weeks.

The team made a simple simulation of a planetary life span, in which a planet is born hot and molten, with some water dissolved in a planet-wide sea of magma. It can start with water in its hand ...

Glaciers are melting rapidly due to climate change, disrupting global water cycles and increasing natural disasters Glacier loss leads to water scarcity, floods, landslides, and rising sea levels ...

The High Seas: Greed, Power and the Battle for the Unclaimed Ocean. By Olive Heffernan. Greystone; 352 pages; $32.95. Profile; £22 The Coming Storm: Why Water Will Write the 21st Century. By Liam ...

The Caspian Sea is the planet’s largest inland sea and its largest lake, an enormous body of water roughly the size of Montana. Its looping coastline stretches more than 4,000 miles and is ...