New research shows that these fields speed up water dissociation not by lowering energy costs, but by increasing molecular disorder once ions form. The reaction becomes entropy-driven—exactly the ...

They will also determine the future of an audacious idea to slow its demise. Right now, warm water is barely cresting the ...

In other developments, a federal court rejected, for now, the EPA’s move to rescind drinking-water limits for 4 PFAS ...

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and 15 other Senate Democrats sent a letter to the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers rebuking a ...

Here, experts reveal if drinking water can help combat chronic inflammation, plus other steps you can take to reduce ...

Greenland is warming fast, and its massive ice sheet contains enough fresh water to raise global sea levels by 23 feet.

Researchers have found a way to make ordinary aluminum tubes float indefinitely, even when submerged for long periods or punched full of holes. By engineering the metal’s surface to repel water, the ...

California has hundreds of miles of coastline, yet melted snow from other states remains an important source of its water. Perhaps a needed change is on the horizon -- one that would even help Nevada.

Poisoning caused by too much of the popular nutrient is rare, but cases are ticking up. Experts warn that people may not be aware they’re getting too much.

In the tropics, the border between troposphere and stratosphere—the tropopause—sits at around 20km, far above any normal ...

“Green ice on Lake Lipno fits into the long-term changes we observe here in connection with eutrophication and ongoing ...

To understand why the Tohoku earthquake was so unusually powerful – and why it produced such a catastrophic tsunami – an ...