13 July 2023
A scheduling algorithm can help redistribute AI workloads among data centres to minimise the environmental impact on regions experiencing water shortages or fossil fuel pollution
16 June 2023
Changes in the distribution of groundwater around the planet between 1993 and 2010 were enough to make Earth's poles drift by 80 centimetres
31 May 2023
UK start-up Puraffinity has created a method of removing pollution from water using a material that selectively binds to PFAS chemicals
25 May 2023
Around half of all wetlands in the contiguous US will now lose their protections under the Clean Water Act, exposing them to pollution and development
22 May 2023
After months of negotiations, California, Nevada and Arizona have agreed to reduce the water they take from the Colorado river, but these drastic cuts are only a temporary solution to the water crisis facing the western US
30 April 2023
Now there is a way to use ink to write words or patterns in liquid, much as you might write on a solid surface, and the letters could conceivably last a very long time
14 April 2023
The state of California is trying to eradicate invasive populations of South American nutria, whose burrows can damage levees and earthen dams
10 April 2023
A three-year drought in Cape Town, South Africa, may have been worsened by high-income people filling their swimming pools and irrigating their gardens
9 April 2023
The rate of evaporation at US reservoirs is speeding up, and could significantly increase by the middle of the century if emissions continue to rise
31 March 2023
A report from the US Environmental Protection Agency found that routine releases of toxic chemicals were on the rise recently, though they are trending downward in the long term
