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University of California, Berkeley, chemists have discovered a way to simplify the removal of toxic metals. like mercury and boron. during desalination to produce clean water, while at the same time potentially capturing ...
Dwindling water supplies and a growing population will halve per capita water use in Jordan by the end of this century. Without intervention, few households in the arid nation will have access to even 40 liters (10.5 gallons) ...
Perhaps the best hope for slowing climate change—capturing and storing carbon dioxide emissions underground—has remained elusive due in part to uncertainty about its economic feasibility.
Every summer, thousands of tourists travel to Greece's idyllic islands to enjoy their sunny beaches. Even the global pandemic couldn't keep visitors away, but water scarcity might. Many Greek islands survive on water imports ...
Vanderbilt engineers used a drop of rubbing alcohol, an office laminator and creativity to develop scalable processes for manufacturing single atom thin membranes. Their membranes outperformed state-of-the-art commercial ...
Highlighting the second dry winter in a row, the Sierra Nevada snowpack on Tuesday was just 61% of its historical average for this date, the latest signal that California appears headed toward summer drought conditions, with ...
Caught between climate change and multi-year droughts, California communities are tapping groundwater and siphoning surface water at unsustainable rates.
As we were still recovering from last summer's fires in southeast Australia, the southwest fires brought in 2021. Both were far more intense fires than seen before, driven by deep drying, extreme heat and powerful winds. ...
The U.S. pulp and paper industry uses large quantities of water to produce cellulose pulp from trees. The water leaving the pulping process contains a number of organic byproducts and inorganic chemicals. To reuse the water ...
Solar-powered brine crystallization could alleviate the environmental impacts of seawater desalination.
