Water. All life on Earth requires it in some way or another, and it's hard to miss that roughly 70% of our planet's surface ...

Currently, land degradation disrupts food security, drives migration, and fuels conflicts. The global area affected by land ...

The researchers suggested the shift could indicate Earth's continents have entered a persistently ... showed that the average ...

The earth is an oblate spheroid ... elevated plateaus and depressed plains, land and water—in ancient times very similar to that which now exists. To be sure, it is evident that portions ...

Decades of destructive land use and water mismanagement have ... to the complex system by which water moves around the Earth. Water evaporates from the ground — including from lakes, rivers ...

condensing and returning to the Earth as rain or snow. However, decades of destructive land use and water mismanagement have combined with climate change to put "unprecedented stress" on this ...

Wetlands are ecosystems, in which water is the primary factor controlling ... Alhough they cover only around 6 per cent of the Earth’s land surface, 40 per cent of all plant and animal species ...