Algal blooms are ugly, stinky, and rapidly diminish any enthusiasm to go into the water – or even to stay on the beach ... Across the Baltic from Öland, researchers of Lithuania’s Marine Research ...

Trees ‘remember’ times of water abundance and scarcity New research helps explain why drought kills some trees whereas others survive ...

President Trump's funding cuts to Harvard threaten the university's position as the world's leading research institution. The next 10 are all in China.

A Bloomberg News analysis finds that roughly two thirds of new data centers built or in development in the US since 2022 are in places with high levels of water stress.

Since 1971, the US has led the world in funding cancer research and developing new treatments that have driven down death rates. This may soon no longer be the case.

At the ATLAS Institute, students tackle real-world challenges through design. Hacking the Apocalypse, a course led by Zack Weaver, teaches undergraduate and graduate students to apply design ...

Environmentalists in Israel and Palestine fight to save cross-border water resources "The health of Palestinians affects the health of Israelis and vice versa. And the best example is water." ...

The Water Institute, a Louisiana-based nonprofit research organization, is studying the wetlands' capacity to store "blue carbon," which is industry lingo for the carbon dioxide that is captured ...

Access to water is necessary to sustain human civilization and agricultural production. Recent analysis finds that most of U.S. land area, economic activity, and agricultural production are in regions ...

Today, water scarcity affects between 1-2 billion people, most of them in the drylands. Under the climate change scenario, nearly half of the world's population in 2030 will be living in areas of ...