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Device for water collection

Technology

Artificial spider silk could help us harvest drinking water from air

Helical bumps on artificial fibres can carry 2000 times more water than the volume of the bumps themselves, which could help people harvest drinking water from the air

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We should all be curbing our water usage – before it's too late

Environment

We should all be curbing our water usage – before it's too late

Comment

Distributing AI projects across multiple data centres could make them more environment-friendly

Technology

Shifting where data is processed for AI can reduce environmental harm

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Earth

Humans have pumped so much groundwater, we’ve shifted Earth’s axis

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A sign on the Huron river in Michigan warning of high levels of PFAS

Environment

Reusable granules suck harmful PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ out of water

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Many US wetlands have now lost protections from the Clean Water Act

Environment

US Supreme Court slashes protections for wetlands

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Environment

US states agree to use less from Colorado river to avoid water crisis

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Patterns and letters written in water

Technology

Underwater writing technique lets you draw patterns in liquids

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Environment

Giant invasive rodents could make California’s floods worse

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People in Cape Town, South Africa, refill water bottles at Newlands Spring in January 2018 amid the city's drought

Environment

Rich people use so much water that it is threatening the global supply

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

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Environment

US reservoirs are evaporating more quickly because of climate change

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Environment

US toxic chemical emissions to air, water and soil increased in 2021

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Health

Around 2 billion people don't have access to clean drinking water

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Environment

US military to test destroying toxic PFAS with superheated water

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