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An unprecedented climate observatory to understand the future of water
Aug 25, 2021 (SPX)
Mountain watersheds provide 60 to 90% of water resources worldwide, but there is still much that scientists don't know about the physical processes and interact...
Libya starts restoring mains water cut by sabotage threat
Aug 21, 2021 (AFP)
"The wells and pumps are being switched back on to gradually restore supply," the authority said on its Facebook page Saturday. "The crisis is over." The announ...
New clean energy tech extracts twice the power from ocean waves
Aug 18, 2021 (SPX)
The untapped potential of ocean wave energy is vast - it has been estimated that the power of coastal waves around the world each year is equivalent to annual g...
Colorado basin drought sparks water limits at huge US reservoir
Aug 17, 2021 (AFP)
A chronic drought has left huge swathes of the country parched, as man-made climate change forces shifts in the pattern of rainfall. That has left Lake Mead, th...
Robotic floats provide new look at ocean health and global carbon cycle
Aug 17, 2021 (SPX)
In a new study in Nature Geoscience, MBARI Senior Scientist Ken Johnson and former MBARI postdoctoral fellow Mariana Bif demonstrated how a fleet of robotic flo...
Scientists believe asteroids may have carried water to Earth
Aug 16, 2021 (UPI)
Researchers analyzed rare samples collected from a six-year Japanese space mission and their findings were published Monday in the science journal Nature. The m...
Wildfire smoke may lead to less rain in the western US
Aug 16, 2021 (SPX)
A new study finds tiny particles in wildfire smoke affect the way droplets form in clouds, potentially resulting in less rain and exacerbating dry conditions th...
Six migrants found dead of 'thirst' in Tunisia desert
Aug 12, 2021 (AFP)
A sole survivor from the group of migrants who had left to try to find water but got lost had said they had been walking from Algeria, as a heat wave grips the ...
NASA, international panel provide a new window on rising seas
Aug 10, 2021 (JPL)
Pull up the tool's layers of maps, click anywhere on the global ocean and coastlines, and pick any decade between 2020 and 2150: The tool, hosted on NASA's Sea ...
Cambodia dam destroyed livelihoods of tens of thousands: HRW
Aug 10, 2021 (AFP)
The 400-megawatt Lower Sesan 2 dam in the kingdom's northeast has sparked controversy since long before its December 2018 launch. Fisheries experts had warned t...
From the toilet to the sink: water recycling battles scarcity
Aug 10, 2021 (AFP)
Treating wastewater to put it back into public use can help against water crises around the world, according to the United Nations, though the practice has to o...
Resource-starved Singapore turns sewage into ultra-clean water
Aug 10, 2021 (AFP)
The tiny island nation has little in the way of natural water sources and has long had to rely principally on supplies from neighbouring Malaysia. To boost self...
Nitrogen inputs in the ancient ocean
Aug 10, 2021 (SPX)
However, it has not yet been clarified who carried out this so-called nitrogen fixation on early Earth and with the help of which enzyme. Now, researchers at th...
Climate-vulnerable island nations call on world to save 'our very future'
Aug 10, 2021 (AFP)
The call to action comes after the climate report warned that catastrophic global warming is occurring far more quickly than previously forecast, an assessment ...
Drop in the bucket: US infrastructure plan may fall short on water
Aug 08, 2021 (AFP)
Last month, the Clarksburg Water Board in West Virginia announced that children from three homes were diagnosed with high lead levels, prompting the municipal a...
Vapor-collection technology saves water while clearing the air
Aug 05, 2021 (SPX)
Now, a small company based on technology recently developed at MIT by the Varanasi Research Group is hoping to reduce both the water needs at these plants and t...
Key Atlantic Ocean current system could be collapsing
Aug 05, 2021 (UPI)
The study, published in Nature Climate Change, found evidence that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation is approaching a collapse. The current system...
Using graphene foam to filter toxins from drinking water
Aug 05, 2021 (SPX)
In the United States alone, "many areas are affected by uranium contamination, including the High Plains and Central Valley aquifers, which supply drinking wate...
Major Red Sea coral study put off after hitting reef: organisers
Aug 04, 2021 (AFP)
With six scientists and four crew members, the expedition's ambitious goal was to create a first-ever comprehensive study of the corals in the entire Red Sea, p...
Divining intervention: drought-hit Californians enlist 'water witch'
Aug 04, 2021 (AFP)
He stops, marks the spot with a pink flag and nods. "People would pay a lot of money for that strata right there," he says, referring to underground water. For ...
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