Is hydraulic fracturing — better known as fracking — safe, as the oil and gas industry claims? Or does the controversial drilling technique that has spurred a ...
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Chromium is an odorless, tasteless metallic element. One form, chromium-3, is essential to human health and is found in many vegetables, fruits, meats and ...
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Environmental and public policy groups in New York are calling for a state constitutional amendment that would guarantee residents a right to clean air and ...
Monitoring of U.S. drinking water supplies for chemical and microbial contaminants should be increased, especially for vulnerable populations such as pregnant ...
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Experts at the University of Birmingham are launching an interdisciplinary project called CreativeDrought to prepare rural communities in Africa for possible ...
LYNWOOD AND PICO RIVERA ARE BOTH WORKING-CLASS CHUNKS of southeastern Los Angeles County, with modest homes and well-tended lawns gone brown. But the ...
As part of an effort to develop drought-resistant food and bioenergy crops, scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have ...
We’ve all seen water from sprinklers land on sidewalks or get whisked away by the wind. NMSU Extension Turfgrass Specialist Bernd Leinauer said subsurface ...
It may sound like science fiction, but wastewater treatment plants across the United States may one day turn ordinary sewage into biocrude oil, thanks to new ...
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Global warming is likely to drive significant shifts in regional surface water availability Watch a video abstract about the study. (Will open on the ...
At this week’s American Geophysical Union meeting, a team of researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) presented their latest research ...
The new plant application, developed by Rothamsted Research and Oxford University, could help solve the issue of increasing food insecurity across the globe. ...
A team of UC Davis students are tackling the California drought through innovative housing design with their entry for the U.S. Department of Energy’s 2017 ...
The risk of flooding in the United States is changing regionally, and the reasons could be shifting rainfall patterns and the amount of water in the ground. ...
Human consumption could deplete groundwater in parts of India, southern Europe and the U.S. in the coming decades, according to new research presented here ...
Imaginative solutions from frugal innovations, doing more with less, to those relying on replicating nature or biomimicry, can help boost the Earth’s scarce ...
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'Sundrop Farms' from Australia is pioneering saltwater greenhouses, which could save the Middle East and humanity from drought and climate change. They are ...
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It has been called one of the greatest inventions of the 20th Century, and without it almost half the world's population would not be alive today. A hundred ...
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