Over the past two centuries, humans have locked up enough water in dams to shift Earth's poles slightly away from the ...

The building blocks of life on Earth may have been fueled by tiny sparks hopping between water droplets. Four billion years ago, Earth was a lifeless world, but a dynamic one. Crashing waves ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Global warming has significantly reduced Earth's water storage in soil, lakes, rivers, and snow, with severe implications for agriculture and sea level rise.

Tiny Sparks in Water May Have Triggered Life on Earth, a New Study Suggests. We may not have needed full-blown lightning. By Darren Orf Published: Mar 19, 2025 8:00 AM EDT.

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.