Alone among known planets, Earth has vast oceans on its surface and its landmasses are marked with lakes and extensive river ...

Have you ever wondered what Earth's largest waterfall is? While a few might come close, there's only one that truly sets ...

When large masses of water are moved from one place to another, this changes the shape of Earth and leads to a phenomenon ...

Dam construction since 1835 has caused Earth's poles to "wander" away from the planet's rotational axis because of the ...

New research suggests that the thousands of dams built over the past two centuries have caused the Earth's poles to drift ...

New research has uncovered that the construction of water dams has shifted Earth's poles in subtle but important ways.

In an analysis of the best available Earth systems models, Northeastern researchers found that by the turn of the next ...

THIS IS SUCH AN INTERESTING WAY TO VISUALIZE ALL THE WATER ON EARTH–and to understand its volume compared to the size of the planet as a whole. It’s also a great visualization of the to… ...

When our planet first formed, it was extremely dry. Something had to happen to deliver quintillions of gallons of water to Earth.

New research finds that global warming has significantly reduced the amount of water that’s being stored around the world in soil, lakes, rivers, snow and other places on land ...