Schematic of co-axial electrospinning device. Credit: Elsevier A new alternative seawater desalination membrane to produce drinking water. According to the World Health Organization, about 785…
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The bright white region of this image shows the icy cap that covers Mars’ south pole, composed of frozen water and frozen carbon dioxide. ESA’s…
June 16, 2021 Precipitation totals and lake levels are among the worst they have been since the 1970s. Just four years after emerging from a…
The pilot condenser atop an ETH Zurich building. Credit: ETH Zurich / Iwan Hächler Fresh water is scarce in many parts of the world and…
This image shows a forest giving off moisture into the air, or transpiring. When combined with moisture that evaporates from the land, both processes drive…
When the researchers began studying the way salts crystallize on certain surfaces, they found that the process repeatedly produced predictable multi-legged shapes. The researchers dubbed…
This image shows the remains of an ancient delta in Mars’ Jezero Crater, as seen by the High Resolution Stereo Camera aboard the ESA (European…
Glacial lake in the Himalayan region. Credit: © Heng Li A team of Swiss and international climate scientists has shown that the risk of glacial…
Alexander Kuchmizhak, a senior researcher at the Institute of Automation and Control Processes (FEB RAS), at FEFU lab. Credit: FEFU press office Titanium dioxide nanoparticles…
Solar-powered desalination unit consists of three layers: wicking material, a thermal insulator, and a paper-based solar light absorber containing titanium. Credit: Chao Chang Scientists develop…
Iran’s Lake Urmia — a sister to Utah’s Great Salt Lake — has lost nearly 95 percent of its volume in the span of two…
International study shows that freshwater polluted by fecal material can be determined more quickly and reliably using a new technique. Credit: From Jiao et al,…
The time between rainfalls has become longer and the rains occurred more erratically in the western U.S. during the last 50 years. Credit: Joel Biederman,…
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…
This photo shows untreated wastewater near settlements in peri-urban Hyderabad. Credit: Dishaad Bundhoo The first global-scale assessment of the role ecosystems play in providing sanitation…
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…
Wastewater treatment plant. A new study by scientists at Utrecht University and the United Nations University concludes that about half of global wastewater is treated,…
An enveloped virus, Φ6 (left), clumps together and becomes damaged by conventional iron coagulation (right). Scale bar, 100 nm. Credit: Adapted from Environmental Science &…
Among the report’s case studies: Africa’s Kariba Dam, the world’s largest man-made reservoir, impounding 181 km³ of water. Almost $300 million was loaned in 2014…
Stanford researcher Ryan Searcy collects water samples from a tide pool at the Fitzgerald Marine Reserve, in Moss Beach, California. Credit: Meghan Shea Using water…