Tag: water
Curious Kids: How does the stuff in a fire extinguisher stop...
Joseph Lanzafame, Rochester Institute of Technology
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert...
Asteroid dust brought back to Earth may explain where our water...
Maitrayee Bose, Arizona State University
Oceans cover more than 70% of the Earth’s surface, and scientists argue that the planet’s interior also contains a lot...
Lightweight of periodic table plays big role in life on Earth
Nicholas Leadbeater, University of Connecticut
Although hydrogen is the lightweight of the chemical elements, it packs a real punch when it comes to its role...
Farmers are drawing groundwater from the giant Ogallala Aquifer faster than...
Char Miller, Pomona College
Every summer the U.S. Central Plains go dry, leading farmers to tap into groundwater to irrigate sorghum, soy, cotton, wheat and...
Discovered: a huge liquid water lake beneath the southern pole of...
Jonti Horner, University of Southern Queensland
We now know that there is permanent liquid water on Mars, according to a paper published today in the...
Crop insurance is good for farmers, but not always for the...
Don Fullerton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Julian Reif, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Megan Konar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Tatyana Deryugina,...
The bottled water industry’s healthy origins
Alexandre Nobajas, Keele University
Huge outcry ensued from my recent article about how Brexit would hurt Britain’s bottled water industry. The outcry wasn’t to do...
Flooding from Hurricane Harvey causes a host of public health concerns
Neil S. Grigg, Colorado State University
The historic rainfall dumped by Hurricane Harvey has already led to deaths by drownings and the destruction of many...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
