Even a toddler knows that plants need water. It's perhaps the first thing we learn about these green life-forms. But how ...

Scientists from UC Santa Barbara and San Diego State University developed a new model to reveal how plants manage water under ...

Climate change is making dry periods, droughts and heavy rains increasingly frequent. Brigitte Helmreich, professor at the ...

Cutting down all 3 trillion trees would release 35 billion tons of CO2 and disrupt the Earth’s water cycle. This would lead ...

As winter fades (quite rapidly this year) and spring emerges, trees undergo a fascinating transformation, signaling a new cycle of life. During winter, trees lie dormant, conserving energy and ...

Disruptions to the water cycle are “deeply intertwined” with climate change, the report found. A stable supply of green water is vital for supporting vegetation that can store planet-heating ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — It’s a multi-billion dollar question: What will happen to water as temperatures continue to rise? There will be winners and losers with any change that redistributes where, when and ...

A new study takes an important step toward reconstructing a global history of water over the past 2,000 years. Using geologic and biologic evidence preserved in natural archives — including 759 ...

Meteorologist Kylee Miller explains the water cycle in this Science of Weather segment. Plus, she walks you through a fun experiment you can do to illustrate part of the water cycle.

Trees have a complex relationship with snow and energy as the season warms up, but new research shows that big trees can protect melting snowpacks in water-stressed environments.