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 ...

Land water is vanishing faster. Earth's surface struggles to recover, risking food, water, and climate stability.

Scientists already knew that melting glaciers could change the planet’s rotation. But this study shows that groundwater ...

Life may not have begun with a dramatic lightning strike into the ocean but from many smaller "microlightning" exchanges among water droplets from crashing waterfalls or breaking waves. New ...

Clean water ... into debt on our groundwater use," Postel said, "and that has very significant impacts for global water security. The rate of groundwater depletion has doubled since 1960." Some of ...

Earth's water likely came from a combination of sources. Volcanic activity released water vapor, which condensed into oceans. However, a significant portion of Earth’s water may have arrived ...

New research from Stanford University shows that water sprayed into a mixture of gases thought to be present in Earth's early atmosphere can lead to the formation of organic molecules with carbon ...