Other "non-negligible" changes in water and mass distribution may have played a role in polar motion between 1993 and 2010 — including shifts in natural lake levels, mantle convection and ...

In 2016, scientists showed that the distribution of water was able to change the rotation of Earth.But at the time, the phenomenon lacked detail about how groundwater use might be involved in that ...

A man walks across the dry bed of Lake Ahmad Sar in India in 2015. The total amount of water in Earth’s lakes, rivers and soils has drastically dropped since the turn of the century, a new study ...

Water has power. So much power, in fact, that pumping Earth’s groundwater can change the planet’s tilt and rotation. It can also impact sea-level rise and other consequences of climate change.

Earth's soil moisture dropped by over 2,000 gigatons in roughly the last 20 years, the study says. For context, that's more than twice Greenland's ice loss from 2002 to 2006, the researchers noted.

Earth’s water may not have originated from asteroids after all. Scientists have long questioned whether an early Earth could have contained the appropriate hydrogen and oxygen on its own to ...

“Planets are much more water-abundant than previously assumed,” says Dorn. Understanding evolution history. Water distribution is also important if we wish to understand how planets form and develop.

Humanity has thrown the global water cycle off balance “for the first time in human history,” fueling a growing water disaster that will wreak havoc on economies, food production and lives ...