In the Forest Laboratory "Waldlabor" on Hönggerberg, ETH Zurich researchers investigate the storage and transport processes of water in the forest. Recently they showed that forest-floor litter and ...

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 ...

The destruction of forests also interrupts the piece of the water cycle that relies on vegetation to store water and release moisture through transpiration.

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Learn more about the water cycle in this BBC Bitesize KS2 Geography guide.

Learn about the water cycle, a continuous movement of water around the Earth — and find out how it gets into your taps.

The water cycle works by using the energy of the Sun to exchange water from oceans and lakes to the atmosphere, and then back into the oceans again. It does this over and over in a continuous cycle.

A vicious cycle is at play: a steady supply of green water is essential for supporting vegetation that can store planet-heating carbon, but humanity's destructive path, including the destruction ...

In recent decades, global warming has accelerated the water cycle, especially the evapotranspiration phase (evaporation and plant transpiration), which can result in both more rainfall and more ...

Prolonged droughts, wildfires and water shortages. Torrential downpours that overwhelm dams and cause catastrophic flooding. Around the globe, rising temperatures stoked by climate change are… ...