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Water quality

Two people install a permeable reactive barrier next to open water.
Posted inNews

Reactive Barriers Could Keep Nitrate out of the Atlantic

by Alix Soliman 15 July 202415 July 2024

Microbes in mulch scrub nitrate from groundwater before it flows to the sea.

Bison roam in a grassland with dead and living trees.
Posted inNews

Kansas Prairie Streams Are Getting Choked, Maybe for Good

by Kimberly Hatfield 6 May 20246 May 2024

A herculean effort to fight back woody plants in the Konza Prairie has largely failed. The outcome shows how difficult it can be to retore these ecosystems.

Kelp gigante en agua azul y soleada.
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Cuando los bosques en la tierra arden, los bosques submarinos sienten el impacto

by J. Besl 31 January 202431 January 2024

El kelp es un hábitat, un sumidero de carbono y un agente aglomerante en tu helado. Pero estudios recientes muestran que los bosques de kelp en California son afectados por el destino de sus contrapartes sobre tierra.

Researchers and a Navajo Nation potter discuss creating water filtration tools over a table with pottery.
Posted inNews

Crafting Clean Water in the Navajo Nation

Jane Palmer, Science Writer by Jane Palmer 22 January 202422 January 2024

A collaboration between researchers and a Navajo Nation potter has yielded an effective and culturally appropriate water treatment device.

A silhouetted, partially transparent image of a hand passing a baton to another hand overlays a photo of an arid, cracked desert land surface with a narrow pool of water in the center.
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Accelerating Toward Water Security

by Eddy Moors, Charles J. Vörösmarty, Graham Jewitt and Anthony D. Cak 22 December 202322 December 2023

Halfway through the United Nations’ push for sustainable development, there is backsliding on the goal of “clean water and sanitation for all.” Water experts and stakeholders are out to change this.

Giant kelp grows in sunny, blue water.
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When Forests on Land Burn, Forests Underwater Feel the Impact

by J. Besl 18 December 20239 February 2024

Kelp is a habitat, a carbon sink, and a binding agent in your ice cream. But new research shows that California’s kelp forests are affected by the fate of their counterparts on land.

Llamas walking along a rocky landscape in front of a retreating glacier in Cordillera Blanca, northern Peru.
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How Llama Poop Is Helping an Andean Community Adapt to Melting Glaciers

by Sofia Moutinho 9 November 202317 November 2023

Reintroducing these animals can enrich barren soils and potentially reduce water contamination, a study shows.

Satellite image of the Mississippi River surrounded by a green landscape
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Rivers Are Warming Up and Losing Oxygen

by Elise Cutts 3 November 20233 November 2023

Researchers used deep learning to fill in the gaps of “patchy” water quality data, revealing decades-long trends toward warmer and less oxygenated rivers that could have worrisome consequences.

A silver wire mesh collects droplets of water in front of a gray background.
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Low-Tech, Energy-Free Tool Collects and Cleans Fog Water

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 28 September 20237 February 2024

A new fog harvester could benefit communities that lack access to clean freshwater.

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The Supreme Court Is Bypassing Science—We Can’t Ignore It

by Adam S. Ward and Adell Amos 6 September 202312 September 2023

The court’s exclusion of scientists from the environmental rulemaking process comes full circle as the EPA strips federal protections for wetlands.

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