Researchers use satellite imaging to map groundwater use in California’s central valley
Satellite data reveal variability in intensity of groundwater use for different crops, a boon for irrigation policymaking across the stateCredit: ...
Tag: Hydrology/Water Resources
How a toxic chromium species could form in drinking water
Credit: Adapted from Environmental Science & Technology 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c03922 The water crisis in Flint, Michigan, brought much-needed attention to ...
New fire containment research addresses risk and safety
Credit: Karina Puikkonen As 2020 has shown, wildfire frequency, size and severity is threatening communities and natural resources across the ...
Redefining drought in the US corn belt
Credit: Hyungsuk Kimm, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - As the climate trends warmer and drier, global food security increasingly ...
More accurate modelling of climate change impacts on water resources
Database comprising 14,425 North American watershedsCredit: Lino Cipresso To better document the repercussions of climate change on regional water resources, ...
Princeton researchers join $1M NSF effort to model nation’s groundwater
Credit: (Image by Alex Hu from Pixabay) Researchers from Princeton will help lead a $1 million project funded by the ...
Cement-free concrete beats corrosion and gives fatbergs the flush
Researchers from RMIT University have developed an eco-friendly zero-cement concrete, which all but eliminates corrosionCredit: Copyright Museums Victoria, Photographer: Rob ...
Leading water scientists warn of risks in shift to monoculture crops, tree plantations
Credit: University of Saskatchewan Conversion of large swaths of land to uniform tree plantations and single-crop species may lead to ...
5G wireless may lead to inaccurate weather forecasts
Rutgers study is the first to model impact of 5G radiation "leakage" on forecastingCredit: Mohammad Yousefvand Upcoming 5G wireless networks ...
Ambitious project spanning 5 states, 8 institutions will focus on intermittent streams
Credit: Carla Atkinson LAWRENCE -- A major new research project headquartered at the University of Kansas will investigate how intermittent ...
Southern hemisphere could see up to 30% less rain at end of the century
Analysis published in Scientific Reports is based on climate models for the mid-Pliocene period, which occurred 3 million years ago ...
0.5°C of additional warming has a huge effect on global aridity
Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan - In a new climate modeling study, researchers from ...
Turbulence affects aerosols and cloud formation
Credit: Will Cantrell/Michigan Tech Chat with an atmospheric scientist for more than a few minutes, and it's likely they'll start ...
EDF, NASA, DRI, Google announce web application to transform water management in the West
OpenET will provide easily accessible satellite-based water data to help build a resilient future for agricultureCredit: OpenET (SACRAMENTO, CA -- ...
Europe’s primary forests: What to protect? What to restore?
First international assessment of the protection state of mostly 'untouched' forests in EuropeCredit: Tzvetan Zlatanov Primary forests are forests without ...
Choosing the right cover crop to protect the soil
Credit: Dennis Bowman Farmers around the world are keen to protect their most important asset: their soil. The soil supports ...
CCNY engineer Xi Chen and partners create new shape-changing crystals
Credit: Image courtesy: Tong Wang Imagine harnessing evaporation as a source of energy or developing next generation actuators and artificial ...
How to harness the power of biosolids to make hydrogen
Biosolids are the driving force behind a sustainable new method for producing hydrogen from wastewaterCredit: RMIT University Researchers have used ...
Scientists map freshwater transport in the Arctic Ocean
Credit: Alexander Osadchiev et al./Scientific Reports The Ob, Yenisei, and Lena rivers flow into the Kara and Laptev seas and ...
Urbanization and agriculture are land uses that most affect Brazil’s rivers
A literature review by researchers affiliated with universities in Brazil and the United States produces the first ever nationwide survey ...