The economic costs of drought could rise by more than one-third in the next 10 years without urgent reforms to water policies and irrigation systems, especially in resource-limited countries, according to new analysis.
Swathes of South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania and Western Australia are in the grip of drought as they experience some of the lowest rainfall totals on record.
Natural and engineered systems have a whole world of chemistry inside their tiny pores鈥攌nown as nanopores鈥攖hat changes depending on the chemical functional groups inside.
Increasing the natural uptake of carbon dioxide by the ocean or storing captured CO鈧� under the seabed are currently being discussed in Germany as potential ways to offset unavoidable residual emissions and achieve the country's ...
Condensation is critical for applications like power generation, water harvesting, and cooling systems. However, traditional surfaces suffer from a drop in performance under high subcooling, when the surface temperature is ...
In nature and technology, crystallization plays a pivotal role, from forming snowflakes and pharmaceuticals to creating advanced batteries and desalination membranes. Despite its importance, crystallization at the nanoscale ...
Technology for converting solar energy into thermal energy is ever evolving and has numerous applications. A breakthrough in the laboratory of Professor My Ali El Khakani at Institut national de la recherche scientifique ...
Water levels in the Caspian Sea鈥攖he world's largest landlocked water body鈥攁re getting lower, as hotter temperatures cause more water to evaporate than is flowing in. Even if global warming is limited to below 2掳C, it ...
Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute, King's College London and the University of Fribourg have developed polymer water channels, similar to commonly used plastics, that can draw salt out of water, inspired by the body's ...
Morocco is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on tapping northern rivers to supply water to parched cities farther south but experts question the sustainability of the project in the face of climate change.
