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Summer has increasingly become a season marked by deadly disasters, underscoring the escalating volatility of our warming ...
When the Guadalupe River surged more than 26 feet in less than an hour on July 4, it wasn't just a flood, it was a force of nature tearing through central Texas. The river carried away vehicles, homes ...
Access to clean water is a huge issue across the globe. Even in areas with water resources, a lack of infrastructure or reliable energy means purifying that water is sometimes extremely difficult.
Transpiration, the process of plants releasing water vapor, is crucial for plant cooling but can lead to dehydration in ...
MIT scientists have created a game-changing new "bubble wrap" material that can turn air into water that's safe to drink.
Warming ocean temperatures and warmer air mean there’s more water vapor in the atmosphere to fuel extreme downpours like ...
That's nearly four times the amount of water vapor estimated to enter the stratosphere from the 1991 Mount Pinatubo eruption in the Philippines.
"Ice in the rest of the universe has long been considered a snapshot of liquid water – that is, a disordered arrangement ...
Water frozen in the depths of space has long been considered a shapeless, frozen fog. For decades, scientists believed it ...
The water vapor was detected in Comet 238P/Read, a rare comet in the main belt, which is home to millions of asteroids that orbit the Sun. “In the past, ...
Enceladus water vapor has already been found to contain organic compounds that are capable of chemically reacting to produce amino acids, the building blocks of life on Earth, ...
"Water vapor in an atmosphere on a hot rocky planet would represent a major breakthrough for exoplanet science. But we must be careful and make sure that the star is not the culprit," said study ...