SwRI concept wins NREL energy storage prize
Approach aims to lower costs, construction time for building pumped storage reservoir damsCredit: Southwest Research Institute SAN ANTONIO -- Oct. ...
Tag: Hydrology/Water Resources
Replacing coal with gas or renewables saves billions of gallons of water
Switch to natural gas would save 12,000 billion gallons a year by 2030; switching to solar or wind power would ...
Atmospheric pressure impacts greenhouse gas emissions from leaky oil and gas wells
Credit: Aaron Cahill Fluctuations in atmospheric pressure can heavily influence how much natural gas leaks from wells below the ground ...
UNH researchers find climate change increases risk of mercury contamination
Credit: Credit: Florencia Fahnestock/UNH DURHAM, N.H.--As global temperatures continue to rise, the thawing of permafrost in Arctic areas is being ...
Tailings dumped into Portmán Bay continue to release metals into the sea 25 years later
Credit: ICTA-UAB The waters of the Mediterranean Sea continue to receive dissolved metals from the mining waste deposited in Portmán ...
Reclamation awards $8.9 million for innovative solutions in water and power management
Credit: Bureau of Reclamation/Alex Stephens The Bureau of Reclamation is providing $8.9 million to 27 new research projects and 114 ...
Increased risk of tularemia as the climate changes
Credit: Jolanta Dabrowska/Mostphotos Researchers at Stockholm University have developed a method for statistically predicting impacts of climate change on outbreaks ...
Urbanisation costs Edinburgh over 11 hectares of green land each year
Much of vegetation loss is due to private gardens being paved over or built onCredit: CEH Edinburgh is losing the ...
Achieving a safe and just future for the ocean economy
Credit: © 2019 The People Seas Initiative The economic potential of the oceans is expected to double from US$1.5 trillion ...
Lakes worldwide are experiencing more severe algal blooms
Climate change is likely hampering recovery effortsCredit: NASA Earth Observatory image made by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the ...
Aerial photographs shed light on Mont Blanc ice loss
100 years of climate change visible in the AlpsCredit: Walter Mittelholzer, ETH-Bibliothek Zürich & Dr Kieran Baxter, University of Dundee ...
Hush, little baby: Mother right whales ‘whisper’ to calves
Credit: Photo by Dana Cusano, Syracuse University; NMFS Permit #775-1875 On June 20, a whale researchers had named Punctuation was ...
The benefits of updating agricultural drainage infrastructure
Credit: Michael Castellano AMES, Iowa - Massive networks of drains, pipes and tiles that enable food production on much of ...
Researchers find antibiotic resistant genes prevalent in groundwater
Scholars warn attention needed to make wastewater potable and ensure public safety nationwide against emerging threat of antibiotic resistanceCredit: Adam ...
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