A new study highlights how critical non-perennial streams are important to ecosystems and society - and how these streams are threatened by climate change.
As the federal government declared the first water shortage on the Colorado River, farmers from Arizona would be the most affected sector when mandatory water cutbacks start next year.
A report released by the human rights nonprofit organizations Dig Deep and U.S. Water Alliance claims that "race is still the strongest determinant" when it comes to access to safe drinking water. Until now, there are twice as much poor, indigenous, immigrants than there are white Americans who does not have an access to running water and basic plumbing in their households.
Astronomers, with the help of NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, have discovered a planet that closely resembles Earth's size and orbits a red dwarf star in the habitable zone about 493 light-years away.
Less than a month after scientists discovered liquid methane waves on the Saturn moon of Titan, researchers, using NASA's Cassini spacecraft, have now discovered a body of liquid water under the icy surface of Saturn's other moon Enceladus.
The vapor jets were not detected during Hubble's observations in the same region in October 1999 or even November 2012, n The Galileo probe, which flew by Europa nine times in the late 1990s, didn't see any plumes there either.
