California pumps too much groundwater, especially during droughts. Now, it's learning to refill the overdrawn bucket. ~enviro water.ground Article 2058 words, published Mar 23 2022 9 votes
The future of sea level rise is being written underneath Antarctica and Greenland ~enviro water climate change Article 1738 words 4 votes
Disney to build a branded community promising “magic” in the California desert ~design urban planning Article 670 words 7 votes
Can you pump sewage? When it comes to wastewater, what goes down must come up again ~engineering Video 12:14 1 vote
A 'blue blob' in the North Atlantic Ocean has been slowing down the melting of Iceland's glaciers, a new study suggests ~enviro climate change water Link 6 votes
Nebraska will spend $500M to claim South Platte River water from Colorado ~enviro Article 903 words 5 votes
Scientists just found a 'significant' volume of water inside Mars' grand canyon ~space Article 597 words 19 votes
Tidal kites with a five-metre wingspan move underwater in a figure-of-eight pattern, absorbing energy from the running tide to generate electricity ~enviro energy.renewable water Article 1204 words 12 votes
UN report warns of global water crisis (floods and droughts) amid climate change ~enviro water climate change Article 430 words 7 votes
International seafood company Grieg Seafood leaked nearly 4,000 gallons of chlorine into a northern Norway fjord, killing approximately 96,000 fish ~enviro pollution.water Article 336 words 9 votes
Large amounts of mercury discovered in Greenland's glaciers – the heavy metal raises concerns for the health of indigenous communities ~enviro pollution.water Article 1018 words 5 votes
Study seeks origins of ghost nets that haunt Hawaii’s shores ~enviro pollution.water Article published May 27 2021 5 votes
In the Klamath Basin, pretty much everybody’s feeling the pain ~enviro climate change natural disasters Article 1477 words 8 votes
Marin to be first big Bay Area water agency to push ahead with water restrictions ~enviro climate change Article 684 words 7 votes
Human taste buds can tell the difference between normal and 'heavy' water ~science biology Article 828 words 13 votes
Collapse possible at Manatee County (FL) wastewater reservoir ~enviro pollution.water water.waste Article 1773 words 12 votes
Urban fish ponds: Low-tech sewage treatment for towns and cities ~tech Article 3563 words, published Mar 27 2021 7 votes
Farms, feathers, and fins share water in California ~enviro conservation water Article 1528 words, published Mar 24 2021 4 votes
Simple hand-built structures can help streams survive wildfires and drought ~enviro water Article 2620 words 10 votes
Humans control majority of freshwater ebb and flow on Earth, study finds ~enviro water.fresh Article 1063 words 6 votes
Tens of thousands of large dams are reaching the end of their expected lifespans, leading to a dramatic rise in failures and posing a serious threat to hundreds of millions living downstream ~engineering Article 2155 words 10 votes
Hackers try to contaminate Florida town's water supply through computer breach ~tech Article 361 words 15 votes
Forever chemicals are widespread in US drinking water ~enviro pollution.water water.drinking Article 1383 words 17 votes
Ex-Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and eight others criminally charged in Flint Water Crisis ~enviro pollution.water Article 837 words, published Jan 14 2021 29 votes
One in eight California households is past due on their water bill, and the total debt is over $1 billion ~finance Article 1135 words 11 votes
Water is joining gold, oil and other commodities traded on Wall Street, highlighting worries that the life-sustaining natural resource may become scarce across more of the world ~finance Article 14 votes
NASA's SOFIA has detected water molecules in the Moon's Clavius Crater, the first time water has been discovered on the sunlit surface ~space astronomy.infrared Article 20 votes
How the waters off Los Angeles became a DDT dumping ground ~enviro pollution.water Article 5481 words 12 votes
Lake Kivu is one of Africa's strangest bodies of water, with dense depths packed with methane and carbon dioxide gas ~science Article 1590 words 8 votes
At Iceland's Blue Lagoon you can swim in power plant wastewater – here's a story about geothermal energy, cheap heat, and how to keep some ducks warm ~enviro energy.renewable water.waste Video 5:17 9 votes
Arizona university prevents potential Covid outbreak by testing feces ~health Article 364 words 8 votes
Michigan reaches preliminary settlement to pay $600 million to Flint Water Crisis victims ~enviro pollution.water Article 508 words 9 votes
Analysis of data from the end of NASA's Dawn mission confirms that the dwarf planet Ceres is an ocean world with a deep reservoir of salt-enriched water ~space Article 13 votes
Great Lakes water temperatures are blowing away records and could climb higher ~enviro climate change water Article 1036 words 5 votes
Bottled water manufactured by Whole Foods and sold in most of its US stores and on Amazon contains potentially harmful levels of arsenic ~enviro pollution water.bottled Article 2402 words 12 votes
COVID-19 may have been in Italy as early as December 2019, according to new research of sewage samples ~health Article 331 words 8 votes
Greta Thunberg scolds Danes for dumping wastewater – thirty-five billion liters of unfiltered sewer water have been pumped into the Oresund Strait since 2014 ~enviro pollution.water water.waste Article 226 words 10 votes
Microplastic pollution in oceans vastly underestimated - study: Particles may outnumber zooplankton, which underpin marine life and regulate climate ~enviro climate change plastics.micro pollution.water Article 741 words 6 votes
2000-2010 drought in Upper Missouri River Basin driest in 1,200 years ~enviro climate change Article 420 words 7 votes