Water, ecosystems and human development is the leading theme of this year’s World Water Week. The annual conference on water...
Forests are key to combating world’s looming water crisis, says new GFEP report
Rain clouds hover over a forest in Yen Bai, Vietnam. Photo by Rob Finlayson/ICRAF The world is facing a growing...
Radiokrypton dating plumbs mysteries of water aquifers
Argonne physicist Peter Mueller and his colleagues are selectively capturing and counting rare isotopes of krypton to determine the age...
Beekeeping preserves wetlands in Algeria
The Wetlands Complex of Guerbès-Sanhadja in Algeria. With an area of 42,100 hectares and 40 million m3 of water reserves...
Great Pacific Garbage Patch now three times the size of France
A huge, swirling pile of trash in the Pacific Ocean is growing faster than expected and is now three times...