Fresh water cycles from ocean to air to clouds to rivers and back to the oceans. This constant shuttling can give us the illusion of certainty. Fresh water will always come from the tap. Won’t it?

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 ...

I was sitting in a meeting yesterday watching extremely high rainfall rates from an unnamed tropical system passing through Georgia. As the rain hit the parking lot, some of it rushed to drains while ...

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 ...