Nearly 85 percent of Mexico is experiencing drought, and water sources are dwindling. Mexico is experiencing one of its most widespread and intense droughts in…
A team of Swiss and international climate scientists has shown that the risk of glacial lake outburst floods in the Himalayan region and the Tibetan…
Titanium dioxide nanoparticles decorated by gold absorb about 96% of the solar spectrum and turn it into heat. The material can accelerate the evaporation in…
Scientists develop a low-cost, highly efficient technique that uses solar energy to remove salt from seawater, producing safe drinking water. Despite the vast amount of…
In a rare exchange, scientists and water resources engineers from Iran and Utah are collaborating on a bold scientific study to restore one of the…
International study shows that freshwater polluted by fecal material can be determined more quickly and reliably using a new technique. When wastewater from villages and…
Dry periods between rainstorms have become longer and annual rainfall has become more erratic across most of the western United States during the past 50…
More snow is melting during winter across the West, a concerning trend that could impact everything from ski conditions to fire danger and agriculture, according…
Hydrogen is a pollution-free energy source when it’s extracted from water using sunlight instead of fossil fuels. But current strategies for “splitting” or breaking apart…
Every year 600-900 million tons of carbon flow through rivers to the ocean either as particles or in dissolved form. Researchers have known for a…
Prototypes tested in India show promise as a low-cost, natural filtration option. The interiors of nonflowering trees such as pine and ginkgo contain sapwood lined…
New data challenges the long-held theory that all of Mars’ water escaped into space. Billions of years ago, the Red Planet was far more blue;…
European summer droughts since 2015 unprecedented in past two millennia, according to a new study. An international team, led by the University of Cambridge, studied…
UC Santa Cruz researchers published a new study — in collaboration with UC Water and the Sierra Nevada Research Institute at UC Merced — that…
New Study Challenges Long-Held Theory of Fate of Mars’ Water The new science results indicate that a large quantity of the Red Planet’s water is…
The first global-scale assessment of the role ecosystems play in providing sanitation finds that nature provides at least 18% of sanitation services in 48 cities…
Swimming in indoor or outdoor pools is a healthy form of exercise and recreation for many people. However, studies have linked compounds that arise from…
In research that may eventually help crops survive drought, scientists at Princeton University have uncovered a key reason that mixing material called hydrogels with soil…