For thousands of years, people in the Middle East and South America have extracted water from the air to help sustain their populations. Drawing inspiration from those examples, researchers are now developing a lightweight, battery-powered freshwater harvester that could someday take as much as 10 gallons per hour from the air, even in arid locations. They say their nanofiber-based method could help address modern water shortages due to climate change, industrial pollution, droughts and groundwater depletion.
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NASA Sees a "Picasso-like" face in Tropical Storm Cimaron's Powerful Storms
An infrared look by NASA's Terra satellite found powerful storms in the center of Tropical Storm Cimaron that resembled a "Picasso-like" face as they zig-zagged around the center of circulation.
Carbon Reserves in Central American Soils Still Affected by Ancient Mayan Deforestation
Finding underscores potential impact of soil management on future greenhouse-gas levels
Research reveals link between warming and lobster disease
An earlier spring may sound nice, unless you're a New England lobster.
New findings reveal that as coastal waters in the northeastern U.S. continue to warm—bottom temperatures in Long Island Sound have increased 0.7°F per decade over the last 40 years—resident lobsters are becoming increasingly susceptible to epizootic shell disease, a condition that has depleted the southern New England population and severely impacted the local lobster fishery.
Nice Sunny Days Can Grow into Heat Waves and Wildfires: Summer Weather is Stalling
Be it heavy downpours or super-hot spells, summer weather becomes more persistent in North America, Europe and parts of Asia.
New Study Identifies Strategies in U.S. Climate Litigation
Researchers at the George Washington University (GW) have published a study in Nature Climate Change that for the first time analyzes all U.S climate change lawsuits over a 26-year period.
