A few months ago I had the equivalent of a science education “mini-rant” in Forbes. I thought about K-12 class lessons about the water cycle, and the glaring omission in all of them. If you are old ...

As the planet continues to warm, this cycle is expected to be increasingly stretched, warped and broken. The water cycle that shuttles Earth’s most vital resource around in an unending, life-giving ...

Delayed startups and damage to plant equipment due to inadequate water cycle chemistry commissioning are thought to be major problems for half of all new generating units, as well as for older units ...

BYU's new hydrologic cycle, representing major water pools in blue text, natural water fluxes in black text and human-impacted fluxes in orange. Illustration by Eliza Anderson. The United States ...

Power plants are engineered with precision down to the smallest detail, yet one critical variable is often considered too ...

Did you know that the total amount of water on Earth is fixed? The amount of water is neither gained nor lost between the Earth and its atmosphere. Water is a compound of two elements, hydrogen and ...

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Climate change has caused many ecological and environmental changes including more extreme weather, record-high temperatures and more risk of disease. However, climate change may have also altered the ...

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Even if you’ve been living under a rock, you have experienced the Water Cycle in action. Rain falling from the sky, water seeping into the ground, a flowing river, plant roos sucking up moisture; each ...