Hot air holds more moisture than cold air. That simple truth, while familiar to anyone who’s used a blow dryer or walked ...

A 1998 study by MIT found an atmospheric river can have the same moisture flux as the Amazon River — carrying about 176,000 tons of water per second. What are the atmospheric river categories?

Atmospheric rivers are, in fact, vital to the Earth's water cycle. The 1998 MIT study mentioned above found that ARs are responsible for at least 90% of all atmospheric water vapor transport in ...

Atmospheric rivers, named for their long, narrow shape and the prodigious amount of water they carry, are a type of storm that has a huge influence on California’s weather.

It’s not clear whether a warmer atmosphere will make droughts more or less intense, frequent and widespread. “As the atmosphere warms, air at a constant relative humidity will hold more water vapor, ...

Australian researchers have demonstrated a way to electrolyze hydrogen straight out of the air, anywhere on Earth. The Direct Air Electrolyzer absorbs and converts atmospheric moisture – even ...

Atmospheric rivers—the massive bands of water vapor that deliver crucial rainfall to regions worldwide—are steadily moving toward Earth's poles, a shift that could dramatically alter ...

During October, about 72 percent of the planet experienced above average amounts of atmospheric moisture — a trend toward more water vapor in the atmosphere that’s consistent with a warming world.