Compare and contrast: New water purification technology helps turn seawater into drinking water without tons of chemicals
Science Daily Water desalination plants could replace expensive chemicals with new carbon cloth electrodes that remove boron from seawater, an important step of turning seawater into safe drinking water. […]
Compare and contrast: Understanding Flood Mitigation Implementation Activities in Minnesota’s Red River Basin
Natural Hazards Center Research: This study sought to better understand factors that facilitate or hinder flood mitigation implementation in rural settings. Theoretical and practical implications of these findings for both […]
Compare and contrast: Declining precipitation frequency may drive earlier leaf senescence by intensifying drought stress and enhancing drought acclimation
Nature Declining precipitation frequency may drive earlier foliar senescence date from 1982 to 2022. A decrease in precipitation frequency intensifies drought stress by reducing root-zone soil moisture and increasing atmospheric […]
Compare and contrast: To mitigate impact of wildfires on communities’ water, report fills gaps in guidance to public drinking water system staff
Science Daily Wildfires increasingly threaten public drinking water systems, but guidance on how to address damage to these systems from a wildfire has been insufficient, conflicting or inaccurate. A new […]
Compare and contrast: Trees That Have Never Known Plentiful Rainfall Better Prepared for Drought
Yale Environment 360 When faced with a severe drop in rainfall, trees change in ways that allow them to better cope with future droughts. They develop smaller, hardier cells and […]
Compare and contrast: Scientists find most microplastics in drinking water smaller than EU detection limits
EuroNews Green Scientists say that most microplastics found in drinking water are very fine and thus more likely to pass from the human intestine into the blood and organs. Most […]
Compare and contrast: Compounding drought and climate effects disrupt soil water dynamics in grasslands
EurekAlert! A novel field experiment in Austria reveals that compounding climate conditions – namely drought, warming, and elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2 ) – could fundamentally reshape how water moves […]
Compare and contrast: Calls to curb invasive species spread via untreated water transfer
Science Daily Development of cities and the demands of agriculture mean that huge volumes of untreated water from lakes, reservoirs and rivers are now routinely moved large distances, across countries, […]
Compare and contrast: New NOAA dataset to help improve flood mitigation tools, flood-risk assessment
Phys.org The first modeled, historical water level and wave dataset for the Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf coasts was released today by NOAA’s National Ocean Service (NOS). This comprehensive dataset known […]
Compare and contrast: Hiroshima flooding: A case study of well usage and adaptive governance
Science Daily Society is often vulnerable to disasters, but how humans manage during and after can turn devastation into opportunities for improved resilience. For instance, private wells are attracting attention […]