Abstract The Aral Sea has shrunk drastically over the past 50 years, largely due to water
abstraction from the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers for land irrigation. Over a longer …

Inland water is an important natural resource that is critical for sustaining marine and
terrestrial ecosystems as well as supporting a variety of human needs. Monitoring the …

Flow regulation and irrigation alter local freshwater conditions, but their global effects are
highly uncertain. We investigated these global effects from 1901 to 2008, using …

The human influence on the global hydrological cycle is now the dominant force behind
changes in water resources across the world and in regulating the resilience of the Earth …

Hydrological change is a central part of global change,,. Its drivers in the past need to be
understood and quantified for accurate projection of disruptive future changes. Here we …

This paper presents a new reconstruction of the 20th century global hydrography using fully
coupled water balance and transport model in a flexible modeling framework. The modeling …

Comprehensive assessment of hydro-climatic variations and change trends is essential for
understanding, mitigating, and adapting to key water resource changes in different parts of …

Fresh water—the bloodstream of the biosphere—is at the center of the planetary drama of
the Anthropocene. Water fluxes and stores regulate the Earth's climate and are essential for …

A global climate model experiment is performed to evaluate the effect of irrigation on
temperatures in several major irrigated regions of the world. The Community Atmosphere …

River ecosystems are under increasing stress in the background of global change and ever-
growing anthropogenic impacts in Central Asia. However, available water quality data in this …