In Poznan, Poland, eight clams get to decide if people in the city get water or not
They might be small, but these mussels shoulder tremendous responsibility.
Tag: water
It’s Erin Brockovich all over again: rusty iron pipes are exposing us to cancer-causing chemical
Exposure to chromium can lead to lung cancer and liver damage
Water could be a natural byproduct of rocky planets forming — so it could be almost everywhere
This would be very helpful.
The story of the three tons of water in your jeans
They might be comfortable, durable, and in no need of washing -- but there's another side to jeans production.
Between 30% to 50% of the world’s water supply is stolen every year
You'd probably laugh at the idea of someone stealing water -- but that's because you live in a place where ...
Dwarf planet Ceres is an ocean world with liquid water beneath the surface
Our solar system is getting more interesting with each passing year
Microwaving water really isn’t the same as heating it
Tea drinkers, you were right: it's not the same if you microwave it.
How long can humans survive without food or water?
This will vary a lot from person to person, but the ‘rule of three’ is generally valid: 3 days without ...
Indian lake turns pink almost overnight
That's not something you see every day.
Pluto may have had a ‘hot start’ harboring liquid oceans when it first formed
Although Pluto orbits the sun at an average distance of 3.7 billion miles (5.9 billion kilometers), some studies claim that ...
Climate change will make droughts more intense, more frequent
New research from ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, Australia, says we'll see longer and more frequent droughts due ...
The coronavirus cleaned our air — it might clean the waters, too
Cleaner air might make for cleaner waters, too.
Microplastics are all over the place, even in the sea breeze
Researchers found fragments of plastic in sea spray.
We could see up to 1.3m of sea-level rise by 2100 if we don’t take action now
Some rising tides sink all boats.
Wetter, warmer soils will intensify climate change
Warmer, wetter tropical soil increases microbial activity -- which belch out CO2.
Bangladesh’s waters are heavily contaminated with medicine, pesticides, and other chemicals
Contaminants ranged from antibiotics to fire retardants.
Climate change might be brewing a megadrought in the western US
"It has been made much worse than it would have been because of climate change," the authors explain.
US and Chinese researchers develop cheap solar still to produce drinking water
A team of researchers from the US and China has developed a passive, solar-powered desalinization system that could quench the ...
Ever got a ‘phantom sting’ while swimming? This might explain it
Jellyfish can sting swimmers and their prey with 'mucus grenades'
Splendid animation shows the Earth without water — it’s stunning
... and very, very brown.