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

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

Over the past two centuries, humans have quietly nudged the very axis of our planet. As thousands of dams have been built across the world, Earth's poles have tilted by over 1 meter (3 feet). The ...

NASA satellite duo will track Earth’s distribution of water and ice. GRACE-FO isn’t letting the hunt for extraterrestrial water overshadow its research here at home.

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 ...

Last month, my colleagues and I published a report the centerpiece of which is a global map, derived from satellite data, that shows how the distribution of Earth’s fresh water has rapidly ...

The distribution of water on the planet affects how mass is distributed. Like adding a tiny bit of weight to a spinning top, the Earth spins a little differently as water is moved around.

By charting the distribution of the water suspended around the young star, the researchers found the planetary disk contains at least 1,200 times the amount of water in Earth's oceans.

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 ...