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Environment Aug 2, 2023

Kuwait's scorching summers a warning for heating planet

As the blazing summer sun beats down on Kuwait, shoppers stroll down a promenade lined with palm trees and European-style boutiques, all without breaking a sweat.

Biochemistry Aug 2, 2023

Scientists develop a new class of artificial water channels for more efficient industrial water purification

A team led by scientists from the National University of Singapore's (NUS) Department of Biological Sciences in collaboration with the French Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) has successfully synthesized a special protein-mimic ...

Environment Jul 27, 2023

Drought-hit N.Africa turns to purified sea and wastewater

From Tunisia to Morocco, sun-baked North Africa has embarked on a building spree of plants that purify sea and wastewater as climate change intensifies droughts in the water-scarce region.

Environment Jun 21, 2023

We're ignoring the value of water—and that means we're devaluing it

Daniel Kahneman, an Israeli-American psychologist who was recognized with the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002, gave an interview more than a decade ago in which he stated: "We associate leadership with decisiveness. That ...

Environment Jun 21, 2023

'Every drop counts': Spain's crops thrive on wastewater

With rainfall increasingly scarce, irrigating crops can be a major challenge, but farmers in southeastern Spain have long relied on recycled wastewater in a model that is winning attention abroad.

Environment May 29, 2023

Drought-struck Barcelona quenches thirst with costly desalination

Where once the population of Barcelona drank mostly from its rivers and wells, Spain's second city now relies upon a labyrinth-like mesh of green, blue and purple pipes inside an industrial plant to keep it from going thirsty ...

Environment May 11, 2023

Saving desalination membranes from minerals and microbes

Treating seawater with selected chemicals before desalination could reduce biofouling and lengthen the lifespan of filtration membranes. Identifying the components of membrane antiscalants that cause biofouling could help ...

Analytical Chemistry Apr 17, 2023

Upending a decades-long theory of reverse osmosis water desalination

The process of reverse osmosis has proven to be the state-of-the-art method for removing salt from seawater and increasing access to clean water. Other applications include wastewater treatment and energy production.

Earth Sciences Mar 9, 2023

Taking a diverse approach is key to carbon removal, says new study

Diversification reduces risk. That's the spirit of one key takeaway from a new study led by scientists at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The effective path to limiting global warming to ...

Materials Science Feb 1, 2023

Seawater split to produce green hydrogen

Researchers have successfully split seawater without pre-treatment to produce green hydrogen.

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