The federal government is providing water to some large agricultural districts for free. In a new study, researchers urge the ...

Climate simulations reveal that Day Zero Drought conditions are approaching rapidly worldwide, putting vast populations at risk of severe water scarcity. A new study in Nature Communications from rese ...

STORY: The Middle East's Fertile Crescent is drying up. It's an arc sweeping from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf - nourished by the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers... Location: Aleppo countryside, ...

In Lagos, a maize seller recently doubled her prices within a single year. In Morocco, pipelines stretch across barren plains ...

CALIFORNIA, USA — One day last spring, water pressure in pipelines suddenly crashed In the Antelope Valley, setting off alarms. Demand had inexplicably spiked, swelling to three and half times normal.

The “bitcoin uses fossil fuels” argument has been increasingly breaking down in the face of new data from Bloomberg Intelligence showing the network is in fact the most sustainable-energy backed ...

Clean freshwater is critical for sustaining human life. However, 1.1 billion people lack access to it worldwide. Desalination represents an increasingly popular way of addressing this. Desalination is ...

UD doctoral student draws on experience growing up in Ethiopia to help solve water crises in his home country and beyond Growing up in Ethiopia, University of Delaware doctoral student Endalkachew ...

Jonas Salk, who developed one of the first successful polio vaccines, once observed that “our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.” His suggestion echoes the well-known Seventh Generation ...

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