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Water Should Be a Human Right
Water, water everywhere, and you’re entitled to a drop. As scientists warn that the world’s fresh water supplies will soon run critically short, and companies scramble to privatize them, some...
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Time-Series Photos From Space of Aral Sea Death
The destruction of the Aral Sea is one of the great engineering disasters of the 20th century, a mistake on a scale so vast that photographs from space are needed to capture it. When Soviet officials...
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Toxic Soup: Plastics Could Be Leaching Chemicals Into Ocean
Although plastic has long been considered indestructible, some scientists say toxic chemicals from decomposing plastics may be leaching into the sea and harming marine ecosystems. Contrary to the...
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Pollution From Yard Runoff May Be Worse Than Thought
WASHINGTON, DC – What happens on your lawn should stay on your lawn. Scientists have found that runoff from residential yards is filled with far more pollutants than theoretical models would predict,...
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Red Rocks on Mars Aren’t Just Rust
Scientists have a new explanation for what makes the Red Planet so red. Recent experiments show that regular sand, when combined with black Martian basalt, takes on a reddish hue as it’s crushed into...
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Craters Show 1970s Viking Lander Missed Martian Ice by Inches
Meteorites that crashed into the Martian surface last year exposed buried ice to the digital eyes of NASA spacecraft. Scientists have used those images to deduce that there is a lot more ice on Mars —...
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Millions of Tons of Water Ice Found at Moon’s North Pole
A moon probe has found millions of tons of water on the moon’s north pole, NASA reported Monday. The vast source of water could one day be used to generate oxygen or sustain a moon base. A NASA radar...
View Article6 Ways We’re Already Geoengineering Earth
<< previous image | next image >> Scientists and policymakers are meeting this week to discuss whether geoengineering to fight climate change can be safe in the future, but make no mistake...
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Networked Networks Are Prone to Epic Failure
Networks that are resilient on their own become fragile and prone to catastrophic failure when connected, suggests a new study with troubling implications for tightly linked modern infrastructures....
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Moon Water Dreams Evaporate
The inside of the moon might not be all wet after all. A new study suggests that, contrary to recent work, the lunar interior is as bone-dry as scientists thought 40 years ago, when NASA astronauts...
View ArticleA Word on Water and Energy
If you’ve been reading Jared Diamond or Brian Fagan, you know that sustained droughts are correlated with collapsed civilizations. This should come as no surprise given that a top global health concern...
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True Earth: The Real, Bluer Marble
A new satellite photograph of Earth depicts our planet in all its aquatic splendor, revealing a truth somewhat obscured in the original Blue Marble image. That photograph is among the defining images...
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Space Shuttle Images Reveal Ancient Egyptian Lake Bed
A huge lake once waxed and waned deep in the sandy heart of the Egyptian Sahara, geologists have found. Radar images taken from the space shuttle confirm that a lake broader than Lake Erie once...
View ArticleThe Tenuous Future of Water in the Desert Southwest
See Also: A Handy Guide to Climate Change Tipping Points Drought-Resistant Grass Genes Could Spur 21st Century Crops La Niña, not Climate Change, Responsible for Southeast Drought Ecosystem Engineering...
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Snowflakes Under an Electron Microscope
Wired Classic: This gallery from December 2010 is an all-time reader favorite. If you've ever wondered what snowflakes truly look like, spend a few moments admiring their structure up close in these...
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Today’s Clean Tech Could Power the World by 2050
Using existing technologies, the world could convert almost entirely to green power by mid-century — and it wouldn’t cost much more than people now spend on energy, says a new analysis of global energy...
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NASA’s Stillsuit: Atlantis Crew to Test Pee-Recycling Bag
A textbook-sized kit that can convert urine into drinkable water will accompany NASA's last space shuttle mission this Friday.
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Black Hole Holds Universe’s Biggest Water Supply
By Mark Brown, Wired UK Two teams of astronomers have discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever found in the universe. It’s 12 billion light years away, and holds at least 140...
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Crippling Somali Drought Seen From Space
A heat wave that recently swept United States has nothing on Somalia’s years-long dry spell, as new space-based drought images show. The satellite animation (above) depicts 16 weeks of soil moisture...
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How to Tow a Building-Sized Iceberg
A French engineer wants to go to Antarctica, tie a big rope around a six-million-tonne iceberg, drag it back to Africa and melt it into fresh, drinkable water. See how it might happen in this gallery.
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Huge Lake Could Increase Chance of Life on Jupiter Moon
The icy crust of Jupiter’s moon Europa may contain a huge body of water the size of the Great Lakes sitting just 1.8 miles below the surface. If confirmed, the findings could heat up the prospects of...
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NASA’s Next Big Rover to Hunt for Water on the Moon
A joint project between NASA's Kennedy Space Center and the Canadian Space Agency has yielded a lunar rover called Resolve which will search for water sources on the Moon.
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Three Smart Things About Water
Water comes in three states, right? Not exactly. There are at least 22 different phases of water.
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The Salton Sea: Death and Politics in the Great American Water Wars
California's Salton Sea, created by accident in the early 1900s, is set to become the latest casualty in the water wars, and is threatening to take the American West down with it.
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Curiosity Rover Steps Right Into Ancient Riverbed on Mars
NASA's Curiosity rover has found evidence that the area in Gale crater it is traveling through once had vigorously flowing water for perhaps thousands or millions of years. Scientists don't know...
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Public or Private: The Fight Over the Future of Water
All around the world, from the Himalayas to the Great Plains, fresh water is starting to run low. It’s shaping up to be one of the 21st century’s great environmental and humanitarian challenges: People...
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