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Dwindling Antarctic sea ice driving more storms, study warns
5 days ago

Dwindling Antarctic sea ice driving more storms, study warns

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Dwindling Antarctic sea ice is driving more storms in the Southern Ocean, a new study …

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Ecological revival cited in Yangtze
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Ecological revival cited in Yangtze

China Daily  

An egret catches wild fish in the Nanjing section of the Yangtze River, on April 9, 2024. Last year, 95.6 percent of monitoring sections for surface water in the Yangtze river basin reported fairly good quality, representing a 1.1-percentage-point increase from the previous year, he said. He also noted a remarkable increase in biodiversity in the basin, with 227 indigenous …

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Water moves moon closer as home away from home
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Water moves moon closer as home away from home

China Daily  

Chinese scientists' discovery of a hydrated mineral containing approximately 41 percent water in terms of weight in lunar soil samples returned by Chang'e 5 mission marks a giant step in mankind's understanding of the moon while signifying a bright future for mankind's march toward the Earth's only natural satellite. Scientists had found no water in the lunar soil samples collected …

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The UK's rivers are riddled with sewage pollution – new wetlands could help clean them up
5 months, 2 weeks ago

The UK's rivers are riddled with sewage pollution – new wetlands could help clean them up

BBC  

The UK's rivers are riddled with sewage pollution – new wetlands could help clean them up Getty Images None of the UK's rivers are in a healthy state As effluent from sewage works and agricultural pollution flow freely into rivers, researchers and local citizens are urgently seeking to clean up the UK's waterways. Wetlands are a "very effective way to …

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Microplastics may pose risk to Indo-Gangetic plain: Study
9 months ago

Microplastics may pose risk to Indo-Gangetic plain: Study

Hindustan Times  

Researchers behind the study have said their findings could serve as a starting point for an action plan required by municipal corporations to "mitigate plastic pollution and target the possible sources at each location." As per the study, conducted by a team led by CSIR-NIO principal scientist Dr Mahua Saha, microplastics were detected in the Ganga from Haridwar to Patna, …

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Groundwater depletion is worsening worldwide. Parts of California are suffering rapid declines
10 months, 4 weeks ago

Groundwater depletion is worsening worldwide. Parts of California are suffering rapid declines

LA Times  

From California’s Central Valley to the croplands of Iran, groundwater depletion has accelerated over the last four decades across the world’s arid food-producing regions. Groundwater levels have rapidly declined in many areas, while some aquifers' levels have risen since 2000 Median change in groundwater depth per year, in meters Deeper Shallower >1 1 0.1 0 0.1 1 >1 Reno NEVADA …

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Who Gets the Water in California? Whoever Gets There First.
1 year ago

Who Gets the Water in California? Whoever Gets There First.

New York Times  

UNCHARTED WATERS Who Gets the Water in California? Redding SURFACE WATER CLAIMS Sacramento CALIFORNIA DELTA San Francisco Stockton CALIFORNIA Bakersfield Los Angeles San Diego Redding SURFACE WATER CLAIMS Sacramento CALIFORNIA DELTA San Francisco Stockton CALIFORNIA Bakersfield Los Angeles San Diego Redding SURFACE WATER CLAIMS Sacramento CALIFORNIA DELTA San Francisco Stockton CALIFORNIA Bakersfield Los Angeles San Diego SURFACE WATER CLAIMS Sacramento …

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Earth core's mysterious new layer formed due to surface water diving deep: Study
1 year, 1 month ago

Earth core's mysterious new layer formed due to surface water diving deep: Study

Hindustan Times  

The formation of new enigmatic layer – E prime layer – at the outermost part of Earth's core is a result of "surface water penetrating deep into the planet," altering the composition of the metallic liquid core's outermost region, a study by an international team of researchers, including those from Arizona State University revealed. Upon reaching the core-mantle boundary about …

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Antarctica's sea-ice well below winter level, at 'mind-blowing' low: Experts
1 year, 3 months ago

Antarctica's sea-ice well below winter level, at 'mind-blowing' low: Experts

Live Mint  

Climate change and global warming have played a devastating role in maintaining the ecological balance of the planet earth. As per satellite data a new worrying benchmark for Antarctica shows that the sea-ice surrounding the region is well below any previous recorded winter level, reported BBC. {{^adFree}} {{/adFree}} "It's so far outside anything we've seen, it's almost mind-blowing," BBC quoted …

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The physics of friction, the ‘necessary evil’ that bedevils daily life
1 year, 3 months ago

The physics of friction, the ‘necessary evil’ that bedevils daily life

The Hindu  

A good old game of carrom has really stood the test of time. Dosa pan and air tracks You may wonder: isn’t there a simple way of removing all friction? If an object is not very heavy, it can ‘float’ above the track by sitting on the air, and move as if there is no friction. Even though Newton’s laws …

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India’s growing water crisis, the seen and the unseen
2 years, 3 months ago

India’s growing water crisis, the seen and the unseen

The Hindu  

The UNESCO United Nations World Water Development Report of 2022 has encapsulated global concern over the sharp rise in freshwater withdrawal from streams, lakes, aquifers and human-made reservoirs, impending water stress and also water scarcity being experienced in different parts of the world. The Global Drought Risk and Water Stress map shows that major parts of India, particularly west, central …

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Making groundwater visible
2 years, 8 months ago

Making groundwater visible

The Hindu  

The theme of this year’s World Water Day was ‘Groundwater: Making the Invisible Visible’. Extraction value According to the Central Ground Water Board, the annual groundwater withdrawal is considered to be safe when the extraction rate is limited to below 70% of the annual replenishable recharge. There is also a need to work out local-level plans covering water resources in …

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Network Rail and Carillion blamed for fatal errors in Stonehaven rail disaster
2 years, 9 months ago

Network Rail and Carillion blamed for fatal errors in Stonehaven rail disaster

Daily Mail  

A catalogue of failures by Network Rail and disgraced outsourcing giant Carillion caused the fatal Stonehaven train disaster, a damning investigation announced today. Photo issued by the Rail Accident Investigation Branch of a drain near to the site of the Stonehaven rail crash which was caused by errors in the construction of a drainage system by failed outsourcing giant Carillion …

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Decoded | What causes landslides? Are they linked to climate change?
3 years, 4 months ago

Decoded | What causes landslides? Are they linked to climate change?

India Today  

Rescue and relief operations continue at Kinnaur in Himachal Pradesh, where a landslide took at least 15 lives. Professor Sarada Prasad Pradhan from the Department of Earth Science at Indian Institute of Technology-Roorkee explains, "Surface materials are held together on a slope due to friction and cohesion, once this is removed, it induces a slide or even an event like …

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Reallocating water for India’s growth
3 years, 5 months ago

Reallocating water for India’s growth

Hindustan Times  

Water is a critical resource for social and economic growth. Given increased water demand and growing shortages, India will need to reallocate water away from water-intensive sectors to those with higher water productivity to support future economic growth. To understand and achieve a higher allocative efficiency of water use in the Indian economy, we used the stochastic frontier analysis model …

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Why pani-puri is a marvel of deep-frying
3 years, 9 months ago

Why pani-puri is a marvel of deep-frying

Live Mint  

All through my teenage life, I would head back home thinking about what was likely to have been cooked for lunch. The pani puri experience is the sacred marriage of two culinary tricks—the ability of capsaicin in chillies to cause pleasurable pain, and the ability of deep frying to deport as many water molecules on the surface of food as …

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Martian landslides may be caused by melting ice and salt under the surface
3 years, 10 months ago

Martian landslides may be caused by melting ice and salt under the surface

CNN  

CNN — Mars may seem like a still, frozen desert, but more evidence suggests that the red planet is active in subtle ways. Yoseph Yechieli and Gideon Baer/Geological Survey of Israel The scientists modeled the briny water beneath the surface of Mars in a lab by taking the collected soil samples and exposing them to water and chlorine salts and …

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Potential life on ancient Mars likely lived below the surface, study says
4 years ago

Potential life on ancient Mars likely lived below the surface, study says

CNN  

CNN — If life ever existed on ancient Mars, it may not have found a way on the surface – but several miles below it. While many scientists believe that Mars was warm and wet billions of years ago before it became the frozen desert it is today, others point to the faint young sun paradox. “Even if greenhouse gases …

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Data from NASA's Curiosity Rover Hints at Ancient Megaflood in Mars: Study
4 years, 1 month ago

Data from NASA's Curiosity Rover Hints at Ancient Megaflood in Mars: Study

News 18  

Giant flash floods once washed through Gale Crater on Mars’ equator around four billion years ago, according to a study which hints at the possibility that life may have existed on the Red Planet. The research, published recently in the journal Scientific Reports, assessed data collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover — launched in November 2011 — and found that ”gigantic …

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NASA Discovers Water on Sunlit Surface of Moon, Could Help Astronauts in Future Lunar Missions
4 years, 1 month ago

NASA Discovers Water on Sunlit Surface of Moon, Could Help Astronauts in Future Lunar Missions

News 18  

The moons shadowed, frigid nooks and crannies may hold frozen water in more places and in larger quantities than previously suspected, good news for astronauts at future lunar bases who could tap into these resources for drinking and making rocket fuel, scientists reported Monday. https://t.co/TUFKK8Rl9x pic.twitter.com/1wiy05yS4r— NASA Goddard October 26, 2020 NEWS: We confirmed water on the sunlit surface of …

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Dwarf Planet Ceres, Located Between Mars and Jupiter, Is an Ocean World
4 years, 4 months ago

Dwarf Planet Ceres, Located Between Mars and Jupiter, Is an Ocean World

News 18  

The dwarf planet Ceres -- long believed to be a barren space rock -- is an ocean world with reservoirs of sea water beneath its surface, the results of a major exploration mission showed Monday. Maria Cristina De Sanctis, from Rome's Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica said hydrohalite was a clear sign Ceres' used to have sea water. Writing in an …

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