Medicine Buffalo

Study links changes in global water cycle to higher temperatures

BUFFALO, N.Y. — It’s a multi-billion dollar question: What will happen to water as temperatures continue to rise? There will be winners and losers with any change that redistributes where, when and ...
PBS

How climate change is affecting this key water cycle, triggering more extreme weather

Prolonged droughts, wildfires and water shortages. Torrential downpours that overwhelm dams and cause catastrophic flooding. Around the globe, rising temperatures stoked by climate change are ...
CNN

The system that moves water around the planet is increasingly ‘erratic and extreme,’ new report finds

The global water cycle has become “increasingly erratic and extreme” with wild swings between droughts and floods, spelling big trouble for economies and societies, according to a report published ...
Science Daily

Global warming is amplifying our water cycle – and it’s happening much faster than we expected

A research team has used changing patterns of salt in the ocean to estimate that between 1970 and 2014, at least two times more freshwater shifted from the equator to the poles than our climate models ...
The Conversation

Climate change is intensifying the water cycle, bringing more powerful storms and flooding – here’s what the science shows

Mathew Barlow received travel funding from the US government to attend three IPCC lead author meetings. Studies by scientists around the world show that the water cycle has been intensifying and will ...