Scientists have developed a powerful new way to trace the journey of water across the planet by reading tiny atomic clues hidden inside it. Slightly heavier versions of hydrogen and oxygen, called ...

Amid chronic groundwater depletion, water overallocation, land and soil degradation, deforestation, and pollution, all compounded by global heating, a UN report today declared the dawn of an era of ...

The planet is entering an era of global "water bankruptcy," a United Nations research agency said in a new report, which warns that humans' water use over the long term has exceeded the renewable ...