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water
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Dehydration: how it happens, what to watch out for, what steps to take
Anastasia Ugwuanyi, University of the Witwatersrand Dehydration is a big issue during unusually hot weather and outbreaks of…
The sticking point: why physicists are still struggling to understand ice’s capacity to adhere and become slippery
Philippe Brunet, Université Paris Cité and Pierre-Brice Bintein, Université Paris Cité Whether in the form of frost or…
Meltwater is hydro-fracking Greenland’s ice sheet through millions of hairline cracks – destabilizing its internal structure
Richard Bates and Alun Hubbard kayak a meltwater stream on Greenland’s Petermann Glacier, towing an ice radar that…
Groundwater Redistribution Affects Earth’s Rotation, New Study Reveals
According to a study published in Geophysical Research Letters, humans have shifted a significant mass of water by…
Global Assessment Reveals Alarming Water Loss in Over 50% of the World’s Largest Lakes
In a groundbreaking assessment published in Science, researchers have discovered that more than 50 percent of the world’s…
New Study Provides Clues to the Source of Earth’s Water—And It’s Not Melted Meteorites
A new study published in the journal Nature suggests that unmelted, or chondritic, meteorites were the primary source…
Water In our Solar System Formed Billions of Years Before the Sun, Scientists Find
Scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) have found water in the circumstellar disk of a nearby…
Angola’s peatlands trap carbon and clean the region’s water – how we mapped this newly found landscape
Mauro Lourenco, University of the Witwatersrand Ask most people what they picture when thinking about natural “carbon sinks”…
The Mysterious Origins of Water
It may strike you as surprising, but water wasn’t always something that the Earth just had plenty of;…
Desalination may be key to averting global water shortage, but it will take time
As the most water-scarce region on the planet, the Middle East is particularly reliant on desalination technology. Maxim…