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Public trust in drinking water safety has dwindled worldwide - Earth ...
Aug 27, 2024 ... A new study has found that over half of adults surveyed worldwide expect to experience serious harm from their drinking water within the next two years.
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California's farms have a good chance of navigating the water crisis ...
Mar 25, 2024 ... A water crisis looms in California. Declining groundwater levels, exacerbated by a changing climate, threaten the very foundation of this agricultural ...
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Forever chemicals are an underestimated source of water ...
May 18, 2023 ... “Forever chemicals” is a term used to describe a group of man-made chemicals that are highly persistent in the environment and in the human body.
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Forests play a crucial role in clean drinking water - Earth.com
Aug 23, 2024 ... Researchers at Michigan State University are highlighting an invisible standout benefit: these woodlands play an instrumental role in supplying and sanitizing ...
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Spiders transfer mercury contamination from water to land animals ...
Sep 13, 2023 ... Spiders with habitats close to the shoreline can move mercury contamination from riverbeds up the food chain to land animals.
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One Bitcoin transaction uses enough water to fill a swimming pool ...
Dec 2, 2023 ... On average, each transaction on the Bitcoin blockchain consumes 16,000 liters of water, which is about 6.2 million times more than a credit card ...
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Huge amount of water frost "unexpectedly" found at Mars' equator ...
Jun 14, 2024 ... An international team of planetary scientists has recently discovered patches of water frost atop the Tharsis volcanoes on Mars.
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How much energy do plants use to lift water from the soil? - Earth.com
Sep 8, 2022 ... “It takes power to move water up through the xylem of the tree. It takes energy. We're quantifying how much energy that is,” said study lead ...
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New solution removes over 98% of nanoplastics from water - Earth ...
Aug 20, 2024 ... University of Missouri researchers develop a liquid solution that removes over 98% of nanoplastics from water.
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What are the origins of water on Earth? - Earth.com
Mar 17, 2023 ... Many experts have previously argued that water most likely arrived to Earth from meteorites. However, by analyzing melted meteorites which have been floating ...
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