Water constantly moves between the Earth and its atmosphere. But that system — called the hydrological cycle — is speeding up as global temperatures get hotter, primarily due to the burning of ...

Use knowledge of the hydrological cycle to explain specific flood events, with reference to maps and hydrographs.

Research co-led by the University of Maryland reveals that drought and increased temperatures in a CO2-rich climate can dramatically alter how grasslands use and move water. Climate change often ...

Every 1 degree Celsius increases moisture in the atmosphere, which powers up the hydrological cycle—not to mention making hurricanes, typhoons, and other tropical storms more frequent.

The hydrological cycle is a fundamental natural process for keeping Earth’s operating system intact. Humanity and civilization are intimately dependent on the water cycle, but we have ...

BYU's new hydrologic cycle, representing major water pools in blue text, natural water fluxes in black text and human-impacted fluxes in orange. Illustration by Eliza Anderson. The United States ...

The global hydrological cycle is spinning out of balance due to human activities, with droughts and extreme rainfall spurring climate change, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO ...

It examines the "conventional wisdom" that climate change will "accelerate" the hydrologic cycle, fuel more evaporation, and generate more precipitation, based on an increased capacity of a warmer ...

But how does global warming cause both drier and wetter extremes? Scientists say it's all about the hydrological cycle — water constantly moving between Earth and the atmosphere. A hotter ...

Use the key terms featured in a river basin case study. Consider the effect of seasonal differences in rainfall and relate this to changes in river levels and risk of flooding. Students could ...