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Global Warming is Amplifying Our Water Cycle - and It's Happening Much Faster than We Expected

A UNSW Sydney-led study shows at least two times more freshwater has shifted from warm to cold regions of the earth than our climate models predicted – signifying broader changes to the global water cycle.

24 Feb 2022

New Guidelines for Safe Treatment and Disposal of Fracking Wastewater to Protect Drinking Water Sources

Chemists at The University of Toledo discovered that the new and unexplored waste contains many environmental contaminants, including organic chemicals and metallic elements, as companies that drill for oil and natural gas using hydraulic fracturing consider recycling and reusing wastewater that surfaces from wells during the fracking process.

18 Feb 2022

Computational Approach can Guide Sustainable Dam Siting to Protect Ecosystem Services

Rapid hydroelectric dam expansion in the Amazon poses a serious threat to Earth's largest and most biodiverse river basin. There are 158 dams in the Amazon River basin, with another 351 proposed; these projects are typically assessed individually, with little coordinated planning.

18 Feb 2022

Hybrid Wind-Hydro Power Generation Systems Emerge as a Key Trend in the Wind Electricity Market

Wind electricity market overview shows that the hybrid wind-hydro power generation systems has emerged as a key trend in the wind electric power generation market.

18 Feb 2022

Novel Low-Cost Strategy for High-Performance Solar Evaporation

MIT researchers have developed a novel low-cost passive solar-evaporation system that demonstrates much promise for wastewater treatment, seawater desalination, medical instrument sterilization and vapor generation.

17 Feb 2022

Seasons and Tides Influence the Distribution of Wastewater Pollutants in the River Ganges

A new analysis of the River Ganges in West Bengal, India, highlights how wastewater flowing into the river impacts its water quality, and how that influence shifts with seasons and tides. Sayanti Kar of Jadavpur University and Asutosh College in Kolkata, India, and colleagues present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS Water on February 15, 2022.

16 Feb 2022

Solar-powered System Offers a Route to Inexpensive Desalination

An estimated two-thirds of humanity is affected by shortages of water, and many such areas in the developing world also face a lack of dependable electricity.

16 Feb 2022

International Team Explores the Effects of Pursuing Carbon Neutrality and Water Security in China

China has promised to become carbon neutral before 2060 and has coupled this ambitious target with stringent limitations on industrial water use by 2030. An international team of IIASA researchers and Chinese colleagues explored the effects of simultaneously pursuing these goals.

15 Feb 2022

Novel Method to Address Nitrogen Pollution and Improve Water Quality

Researchers at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, have created a novel method to address nitrogen pollution and improve water quality.

14 Feb 2022

Photovoltaic and Wind Power Reduce Carbon Footprint

Recent study investigated the major factors in reducing the carbon footprint of electricity consumption in Switzerland. The country depends on electricity imports obtained from fossil fuel power plants, which are considered to be significant producers of greenhouse gases.

14 Feb 2022