A few months ago I had the equivalent of a science education “mini-rant” in Forbes. I thought about K-12 class lessons about the water cycle, and the glaring omission in all of them. If you are old ...

The world is experiencing wild swings between drought and deluge, and it spells big trouble for economic and social stability ...

Earth's water cycle is the continuous loop of water from land to sea and vice versa. Water is extremely unique, as it can exist in a solid, liquid and gaseous form on our planet. Boiled down to the ...

The UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said in a report released on Thursday that the global water cycle was becoming ever more unpredictable, with shrinking glaciers, droughts, unbalanced ...

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I was sitting in a meeting yesterday watching extremely high rainfall rates from an unnamed tropical system passing through Georgia. As the rain hit the parking lot, some of it rushed to drains while ...