In the modern era, the rapid expansion of industries, agriculture and other activities has significantly changed land cover throughout the world. Changing land cover has caused several problems, ...

Early warning of climate risk is the gold standard that scientists, managers and governments are working towards. Doing this requires a detailed understanding of not just the amount of precipitation ...

Global water models are increasingly used to understand past, present and future water cycles, but disagreements between simulated variables make model-based inferences uncertain. Although there is ...

Groundwater—the water contained in porous and fractured rocks underground—is the largest freshwater source on Earth apart from the ice caps and glaciers. It feeds into rivers, lakes, and other surface ...