Road salt can impact our freshwater systems, but the City of Erie follows protocols to be as environmentally conscious as ...

The Panama Canal is of strategic importance to global trade and naval mobility. By severing two continents and merging two oceans over a century ago, the canal transformed a slender ditch through the ...

Han’s team estimates that the area covered by salty seawater in this Southern Indian Ocean region has shrunk by about 30% over the past 60 years. They describe it as the fastest freshening seen ...

Lawmakers in Argentina are considering relaxing a law that protects ice — which supplies freshwater for millions of residents and dozens of rivers — in favor of mining. ● A farmer-driven effort in ...

Nano-ferric oxide in solar desalination ponds improves thermal efficiency and freshwater yield, as shown in a recent study in ...

A surprising breakthrough could help sodium-ion batteries rival lithium—and even turn seawater into drinking water. Scientists discovered that keeping water inside a key battery material, instead of ...

The Delaware River Basin Commission directed emergency reservoir releases beginning in October 2024, dumping about 1.12 billion gallons of water by early November to push back a wall of salt creeping ...

A new approach to blue energy tackles one of the field’s most persistent problems: how to move ions quickly without ...

A huge stretch of the Southern Indian Ocean is rapidly losing its salt, and scientists warn this subtle shift could quietly disrupt global ocean currents and marine life in unexpected ways.

Beneath the dusty plains of outback Queensland, under towns that depend on a single ...

Imagine a country with no rivers, no freshwater lakes, and no springs. Now, pack 65,000 people onto it. Add half a million ...

Sodium-ion batteries offer multiple advantages over their lithium-ion cousins. Energy storage, however, isn't one of them.