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Water's behavioral anomalies finally explained

Mar 27, 2018 (UPI)

As part of a new investigation into water's behavioral anomalies, scientists at the University of Bristol used computer models to deprogram water's unique physi...

Reducing collateral damage of endangered bycatch

Mar 26, 2018 (SPX)

A new UC Santa Barbara-led study has found that may indeed be possible about half the time. According to the research group's analysis, ending overfishing would...

Low-tech, affordable solutions to improve water quality

Mar 23, 2018 (SPX)

Mohammad Alizadeh Fard, a doctoral student in Michigan Tech's Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, and Brian Barkdoll, professor of civil and environ...

In field tests, device harvests water from desert air

Mar 23, 2018 (SPX)

Even in the most arid places on Earth, there is some moisture in the air, and a practical way to extract that moisture could be a key to survival in such bone-d...

Avocado town becomes symbol of Chile's water war

Mar 23, 2018 (AFP)

It's one of the paradoxes of this South American country's push for progress. With water growing ever more scarce, glistening green cash crops are taking preced...

Revolutionary new filter can improve drinking water quality

Mar 23, 2018 (SPX)

In a research collaboration with Sydney Water, the team has demonstrated the success of the approach in laboratory tests on filtered water from the Nepean Water...

Safeguarding our most precious resource: water

Mar 23, 2018 (ESA)

With water under pressure from over-exploitation and pollution, one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals is to ensure the availability and sustainable manage...

Watch first-ever footage of living anglerfish

Mar 23, 2018 (UPI)

The couple was filmed by German researchers Kirsten and Joachim Jakobsen while aboard LULA1000, the manned submersible operated by the Rebikoff-Niggeler Foundat...

Indonesia women face daily swim for clean water

Mar 22, 2018 (AFP)

As a scorching sun beats down, Hasria makes the four kilometre (2.5 mile), hour-long trip along the murky Mandar river to clean water wells built along the rive...

Pacific plastic dump far larger than feared: study

Mar 22, 2018 (AFP)

Researchers based in the Netherlands used a fleet of boats and aircraft to scan the immense accumulation of bottles, containers, fishing nets and microparticles...

Key biological mechanism is disrupted by ocean acidification

Mar 21, 2018 (SPX)

Phytoplankton are microscopic plants whose growth in ocean surface waters supports ocean food webs and global marine fisheries. They are also key agents in the ...

Australia to open more marine parks to commercial fishing

Mar 21, 2018 (AFP)

The government said the move, affecting 44 parks, was made after an independent scientific review and allowed a more balanced approach to ocean protection, main...

World's largest cities depend on evaporated water from surrounding lands

Mar 21, 2018 (SPX)

A study led by Colorado State University found that 19 of the 29 largest cities in the world depend on evaporation from surrounding lands for more than one-thir...

Half a degree more global warming could flood out 5 million more people

Mar 20, 2018 (SPX)

To quantify what that would mean for people living in coastal areas, a group of researchers employed a global network of tide gauges and a local sea level proje...

Land under water: Estimating hydropower's land use impacts

Mar 19, 2018 (SPX)

Now, a team of Norwegian-based researchers has developed an innovative way to describe how much land it takes to generate a kilowatt-hour of electricity from hy...

Drought-stricken Cape Town counts the cost

Mar 19, 2018 (AFP)

"It's the strangest thing -- I think vines like to suffer. When the berries are shrinking, there's more concentration of flavours," she told AFP, describing the...

A lesson from Darwin

Mar 19, 2018 (SPX)

Since then, much scientific research has focused on the presence of giant kelp and the range of biodiversity it supports. Many marine biologists think of the wo...

US Supreme Court gives go ahead to Flint water lawsuits

Mar 19, 2018 (AFP)

Residents of the decaying industrial city, where over 100,000 people were potentially exposed to high levels of lead in the drinking water, are pursuing civil r...

World needs 'greener' water policies as demand rises: UN

Mar 19, 2018 (AFP)

In its 2018 World Water Development Report, the UN calculated that an estimated 3.6 billion people -- nearly half the global population -- live in areas where w...

World water forum opens after dire UN warning

Mar 19, 2018 (AFP)

"There is simply no time to lose," Temer said in opening remarks at the 8th World Water Forum, which takes place all week in the Brazilian capital. Under the sl...