New Mexico water authorities underwater: Too-low rates prevent needed repairs, report says
Chris Sisney doesn't bother washing his car anymore. He lives off a dirt road; a water leak two blocks away rushes down the road, keeping it constantly muddy. "I can't even get out ... without driving ...
A 1.7 million-ton iceberg sank Titanic. A tiny microbe is making the ship disappear.
A microorganism you can't see is consuming Titanic on the bottom of the Atlantic. How many years until the famous liner is gone?
Live Science1d
Drinking wastewater, building an island from scratch and creating an urban forest: 3 bold ways cities are already adapting to climate change
Climate change will fundamentally challenge the world's urban centers. Three cities — San Diego, Milan and Jakarta — offer ...
New Scientist1d
Special electrodes can split seawater to produce hydrogen fuel
Making hydrogen from seawater can be tricky because the salt is corrosive and the process can create toxic chlorine gas – new ...
Tidal Metals sees seawater as the solution to a critical mineral shortage
The startup, previously known as GreenBlu, was working on desalination when it realized there was more value in the minerals ...
Frontiers2d
Ecology and Biodiversity of Protozoa in the Environment and in the Clinic
When talking about studies involving biodiversity and microbiomes, much is known about the bacteria that inhabit environmental and clinical samples. However, there is a world beyond prokaryotes that ...
The Outrageous Scheme to Capture and Sell Greenland’s Meltwater
A startup says shipping meltwater from Greenland’s glaciers internationally will boost the local economy and could help ease ...
earth3d
Water molecule discovery will force textbooks to be rewritten
Researchers discovered that the molecules at the surface of salt water organize themselves in a way that’s totally different ...
Brackish water creeping up the Mississippi River may threaten Louisiana’s drinking supply
For the third year in a row, Louisiana is constructing an underwater levee in the Mississippi River to slow an influx of salt ...
Science Daily5d
Turning seawater into fresh water through solar power
Researchers designed an energy-efficient device that produces drinking water from seawater using an evaporation process driven largely by the sun.
Down with more dams? A new book envisions Glen Canyon and Colorado River recovery
A kayaker and journalist paints Lake Powell's past and future for outdoorsy types, students of hydrology, social justice ...
New Hampshire Public Radio8d
Development and rising seas threaten Maine's salt marshes, a key carbon sink
Scientists project that Maine could lose 28-57% of its salt marshes by the end of the century — victims of rising seas, ...