Hydrology/Water Resources

New work reveals how carbon behaved during Earth's violent formative periodCredit: Rebecca Fischer, Elizabeth Cottrell and Marion Le Voyer, Kanani Lee, and the late Erik Hauri. Washington, DC-- Carbon is essential for life as we…

Credit: Bob Beschta, OSU CORVALLIS, Ore. - Increasing numbers of bison in Yellowstone National Park in recent years have become a barrier to ecosystem recovery in the iconic Lamar Valley in the northern part of the park,…

HKU researchers develop a novel wastewater treatment process to effectively remove health hazardous chemical contaminantsCredit: @The University of Hong Kong Globally, there is a growing concern regarding the presence of…

HKU study shows that control of anthropogenic atmospheric emissions can improve water quality in China's coastal SeasCredit: Photo courtesy: Dr Thibodeau @HKU A new research led by MPhil student Miss Yu Yan Yau and supervised by Dr…

Altered circulation might have cooled northern areas of North America and EuropeCredit: Yair Rosenthal/Rutgers University-New Brunswick If circulation of deep waters in the Atlantic stops or slows due to climate change, it could cause…

Credit: Beverly J. Agtuca, Sylwia A. Stopka, Thalita R. Tuleski, Fernanda P. do Amaral, Sterling Evans, Yang Liu, Dong Xu, Rose Adele Monteiro, David W. Koppenaal, Ljiljana Paša-Toli?, Christopher R. Anderton,... Crop yields have…

When people take medications, these drugs and their metabolites can be excreted and make their way to wastewater treatment plants. From there, the compounds can end up in waterways. Wastewater from pharmaceutical companies could start off…

China's fast economic growth and accompanying rise in food demand is driving an increase in water use for agriculture and industry, thus threatening the country's water security. The findings of a new study underscore the value and…

Contaminant safety standards don't account for mixturesCredit: Vengosh Lab, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. - Contaminants that occur together naturally in groundwater under certain geological conditions may heighten health risks for…

Free, interactive tool brings together the most up-to-date data on river flows, rainfall, soil moisture and groundwater levelsCredit: UKCEH A unique, interactive web portal developed by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH)…

UCI, NASA scientists assess ice sheet with potential to raise global sea levels nearly 5 feetCredit: NASA Irvine, Calif., March 23, 2020 - East Antarctica's Denman Glacier has retreated 5 kilometers, nearly 3 miles, in the past 22 years,…

Credit: Nagahiro Saito Nagoya University scientists have developed a one-step fabrication process that improves the ability of nanocarbons to remove toxic heavy metal ions from water. The findings, published in the journal ACS Applied…

The BESS-STAIR framework, developed by CABBI researchers at the University of Illinois, was tested in 12 sites across the US Corn Belt and achieved unprecedented accuracyCredit: The Center for Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts Innovation…

Stratospheric aerosol geoengineering is the idea that adding a layer of aerosol particles to the upper atmosphere can reduce climate changes caused by greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide. Previous research shows that solar…

UCI, NASA JPL project tracking Earth-sensing satellite turnover yields striking resultsCredit: Linette Boisvert / NASA Irvine, Calif., March 18, 2020 - During the exceptionally warm Arctic summer of 2019, Greenland lost 600 billion tons…

Credit: David D'Amore Adult Pacific salmon spend a great portion of their life in the ocean. But their life began along the banks of freshwater streams. Their life will end there, as well. These important steps in the lifecycle of salmon…

Focusing on urbanization as a key driver of environmental change in the 21st century, researchers at Princeton University have created a framework to understand and compare cities' food systems and their effects on climate change, water…

Credit: WSU A Washington State University research team has found that nanoscale particles of the most commonly used plastics tend to move through the water supply, especially in fresh water, or settle out in wastewater treatment plants,…

Minimal accumulation of organic micropollutants found BEER-SHEVA, ISRAEL...March 13, 2020 - Although aquaculture in treated wastewater is practiced worldwide, there is scant scientific research concerning whether organic micropollutants…

Meeting of the Geological Society of America's Southeastern and Northeastern Geographic Sections Boulder, Colo., USA: In light of evolving circumstances surrounding the spread of the Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), the…