All Water articles – Page 2
View all stories with this category.
-
ResearchChemical definition of brine as water could help clear up Chile’s lithium controversy
As evidence grows that lithium mining damages water sources, reclassifying brine as water – rather than as mineral – could empower Indigenous communities to protect their rights and convince mining companies to act more responsibly
-
Opinion
Measuring pollutants with paper devices
Citizen scientists monitor phosphate levels in local rivers
-
-
Feature
Cleaning up industry’s water worries
With clean water supplies increasingly scarce, Angeli Mehta looks at what industry is doing to reduce its demands
-
Research
Ion trapping desalination membrane fishes out valuable materials
Selectively trapping toxic or useful ions could reduce toxicity of brine waste and offset costs
-
Opinion
Simulate and collaborate to address water pollution
Few problems get solved by a single discipline
-
News
Florida drinking water plant hack briefly raised sodium hydroxide levels 100-fold
Security breach reveals industrial facilities’ control system vulnerabilities as remote work is normalised during the pandemic
-
Business
4 dead in UK sewage treatment works explosion
One person injured as biosolids silo explodes at Avonmouth
-
Research
Tyre compound driving mystery salmon deaths identified after years of chemical detective work
Previously unknown substance washes from roads to spawning streams – and likely has wide impact on aquatic ecosystems
-
Research
Ancient Maya communities were first to use zeolite to purify water
2000 years ago, people in Tikal were using the world’s most advanced water purification systems
-
Research
First definitive proof of water on the moon
Ice could be a resource for future lunar missions
-
Research
Super-cool study finds hints as to why water is so weird
Preventing complete freezing down to 135K supports theories suggesting a two-state mixture exists
-
Research
Options expanded for origin of Earth’s water
Enstatite chondrite meteroites contain enough hydrogen to have supplied three to five times the total mass of water in Earth’s oceans
-
Business
Questions surround deadly Beirut blast
Ammonium nitrate explosion that killed at least 135 appears to have been caused by poorly-stored cargo from an abandoned vessel
-
Business
Deadly Indian incidents highlight relaxed regulations
Concern over human and environmental cost of reforms aimed at ease of doing business
-
Business
Appeals court cuts damages further in glyphosate cancer case
Judgment retains verdict that Bayer-Monsanto’s herbicide caused US man’s cancer
-
Feature
Atmospheric water harvesting
With drought threatening many parts of the world, Nina Notman explores technologies for sucking water out of thin air
-
Research
Spectroscopy from space lets satellites spy out ocean plastic patches
The technique could show where and how floating plastic patches form, and raise awareness of plastic pollution in the oceans
-
Research
Water’s boat shape resolves disagreement between theory and experiment
Study finds that chair and flat hexamers can’t explain structure of thin layers of water
-
Opinion
Water funny liquid
Raise a glass to the essential ingredient to life, of endless fascination to chemists
