Water supplies, water usage, wild water composition, water treatment.
When I was teaching American history, I used to describe the depression by spinning a yarn about a fictional farmer who’d already been through loads. Fluctuating prices meant never knowing what to plant. Although cars gave you enough mobility to have a social life, you were still limited to Read more…
This Tuesday, scientists from the American Geophysical Union announced in that adding pulverized volcanic rock to farmed fields could increase carbon sequestration to within the IPCC’s recommended levels by 2080 while also improving soil quality. The process is called enhanced rock weathering. Precipitation absorbs carbon dioxide from the air, rendering Read more…
In findings published today in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, scientists from the California Academy of Sciences describe how one unassuming undulator, the Stellar’s sea cow, affected the kelp forests ringing North America’s Pacific coast before European visitors hunted it to extinction in the 1760s. According to the authors, our Read more…
In findings published this year in Water Research X, scientists from Sweden’s Chalmers University of Technology report that viruses may pose a previously unrecognized threat to some of our most important tamed species: The bacteria in our wastewater treatment plants. A healthy wastewater treatment plant teems with tireless but benign Read more…