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Earth’s landmasses are holding onto a lot less water than they used to — and this loss is not just due to melting ice sheets. Terrestrial water storage, which includes water in underground aquifers, ...

Earth has lost enough soil moisture in the last 40 years to change the planet’s spin and shift the location of the North Pole, according to a new study published today in Science that tracks how human ...

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 9 December – Even as dramatic water-related disasters such as floods and storms intensified in some parts of the world, more than three-quarters of Earth’s land became ...

Climate change is causing unprecedented drying across the Earth — and five billion people could be affected by 2100, a new UN report has warned. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

As Earth grows warmer, its ground is becoming drier and saltier, with profound consequences for the planet’s 8 billion inhabitants — nearly a third of whom already live in places where water is ...

Recent NASA research has confirmed that the world’s oceans are swallowing up land at a faster pace than previously thought. Using advanced satellite laser technology, scientists have tracked changes ...

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