Water falls on Earth every day as rain, and now scientists seem to have found a way of using it to create renewable ...

Given the seeming paucity of moisture in the leftover remains of Earth's building blocks, planetary scientists have long ...

A major issue facing U.S. rivers is contamination by sewage and other forms of pollution, but some communities are impacted ...

Where does water, a giver and taker of life on planet Earth, come from ... condensation forming clouds , rain refilling oceans and lakes—and it all made sense. Except for one thing: None ...

Water evaporates from ground level and rises into the atmosphere, spreading across the world as vapour before cooling, condensing and returning to the Earth as rain or snow. However, decades of ...

If the ground is very dry and hard, the rain can’t drain away properly. At other times, it rains so heavily over a long time that the earth soaks up too much water and the ground becomes saturated.

2 min read More than half of Earth’s rain forests have already been lost due to the human demand for wood and arable land. Rain forests that once grew over 14 percent of the land on Earth now ...

When the water vapour cools down, it condenses, turning back into liquid, and falls back to earth as precipitation: rain, snow, hail or sleet. This water then moves across land as run-off ...

As pellets of rain pounded the dry earth of Eastern Cape this January, a man launched himself into a puddle of water created by a broken drain. This spontaneous celebration seems symbolic of South ...