A few months ago I had the equivalent of a science education “mini-rant” in Forbes. I thought about K-12 class lessons about the water cycle, and the glaring omission in all of them. If you are old ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) – Water is facing an uncertain future amid the global climate crisis. In Central Texas, extreme droughts and rapid development have placed the fate of our water supply in doubt. Similar ...

But while all life depends on the water cycle, it is coming under increasing strain and losing its ability to perform these ...

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 ...

Floods, droughts and heatwaves continue to dominate headlines around the world and in Australia. In the past few days, hundreds of bushfires have ignited in south-east Australia during an extreme ...

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Students will be able to develop and explain a particle-level model to describe evaporation and condensation in the context of the water cycle. The water cycle depends on the processes of evaporation ...

The country has planted a bunch of new trees since 1981, but that extra foliage is shifting more precipitation to some areas while drying out others.