Residents of two Columbia University halls of residence should undergo immediate COVID-19 testing after the virus was detected in wastewater from buildings, according to a campus outlet. Those who refuse to be …
Read More »Egypt Says Latest Round of GERD Talks “Last Chance” Before Second Dam Filling
CAIRO / KINSHASA (Reuters) – The latest meeting between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia on the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam may be the last chance to relaunch talks before it fills up for …
Read More »Farmer coaxes desert forest in Burkina Faso
OUAHIGOUYA, Burkina Faso (Reuters) – Yacouba Sawadogo mutters advice to his children as they press a sapling into the red earth using a centuries-old technique he has adapted to evoke a rain-starved …
Read More »Enceladus could have ocean currents similar to Earth’s
Deep within its icy crust, Enceladus’ dark waters may be swirling. According to a new analysis of the ice sheet covering the global oceans on Saturn’s moon, currents very similar to those …
Read More »Global warming is ‘fundamentally’ changing the structure of our world’s oceans
Climate change has caused major changes in the stability of the oceans faster than previously thought, according to a study published Wednesday, raising alarms about its role as a global thermostat and …
Read More »Mars hides its ‘lost’ water beneath the surface, new research suggests
A view of Mars made up of about one hundred Viking Orbiter images.Picture: NASA / JPL-Caltech / USGS The water that used to exist on Mars slowly seeped into space, or at …
Read More »Giant space telescope submerged thousands of feet below the world’s deepest lake
Russian scientists launched one of the world’s largest underwater space telescopes on Saturday to observe the Universe from the crystal clear waters of Lake Baikal. The deep underwater telescope, which has been …
Read More »Ancient Earth really was a world of serene water, new evidence confirms
It’s hard to figure out what Earth might have been like in the early years before life emerged. Geological detectives have now obtained more evidence that it was quite different from the …
Read More »Humans now control most of all freshwater fluctuations on Earth’s surface
There has been a regime change on an almost unimaginable scale in the natural world, reflecting humanity’s vast and growing dominance over one of our planet’s most vital resources: fresh water. In …
Read More »Humans evolved to be more water efficient than other primates, but we don’t know why
Humans have developed large, energy-hungry brains that require us to consume far more calories than our closest animal relatives. However, the same does not seem to be the case with our water …
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