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Wind Turbine Creates Water From Thin Air
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Barbara
- 2 days ago - cnn.com
Wind turbines have long produced renewable energy but a French engineering firm has discovered another eco-purpose for the towering structures. an appliance that can manufacture drinking water from humid air.
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Oldest Human Ancestor Found in Lake Sludge
Science & Tech  (tags: animals, humans, world, water, research, science, nature, environment, animals, humans, science, scientists, study, research, world, interesting, humans, discovery, ancient )

Britt
- 26 days ago - news.discovery.com
A microscopic algae-eater that lives in a lake in Norway may be one of the world's oldest organisms.
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Arctic Marine Mammals and Fish Populations on the Rise
Science & Tech  (tags: animals, oceans, wildlife, world, water, science, animals, animalwelfare, AnimalWelfare, wildlife, wildanimals, scientists, science, study, research, world, discovery )

Britt
- 31 days ago - news.yahoo.com
Arctic marine mammals and fish populations are on the rise, according to a report released on Monday by the the Arctic Council's biodiversity working group at a Montreal conference.
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Solar Energy Brings Food, Water, and Light to West Africa
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Agnes
- 72 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
In Kalalé, Benin, a man tends to a photovoltaic panel that powers a solar drip irrigation system. The project by the Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF) greatly improved food production (below) in the arid village. Now SELF aims to expand solar electricific
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US Researchers Build 'Waste Water Generator'
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Agnes
- 83 days ago - bbc.co.uk
Researchers in the US have built a prototype device which they say can generate electricity from waste water. The team at Pennsylvania State University says the technology would simultaneously treat the water.
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Samaria in a Sewage Stalemate
Science & Tech  (tags: environment, healthconditions, water, pollution, palestine, israel, middle-east )

Fred
- 107 days ago - jpost.com
All but one of 22 Palestinian villages refuse connection to a sewage line, the Environmental Protection Ministry says. Instead, they will continue to let their sewerage flow into the aquifer below.
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Touching the Oldest Water on Earth
Science & Tech  (tags: discovery, interesting, world, research, science, water, Lake Vostok, environment, Antarctica )

Michael
- 110 days ago - cbc.ca
A Russian drilling expedition in Antarctica is close to breaking through four kilometres of ice to sample the pristine waters of Lake Vostok, which has not seen daylight for millions of years.
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End Hunger Worldwide - Lettuce Evolve New Sustainable Food Systems
Science & Tech  (tags: Lettuce, evolve, end, hunger, vertical, deployable, aquaponic, planter, DAP, system, hydroponics, gardening, sustainable, agriculture, organic, green, enviornmental, fresh, food, plant, farm, eco, water, clean, poverty, how, to, permanently, africa )

John
- 185 days ago - indiegogo.com
This is a vertically stacked Aquaponic unit that combines a planter and reservoir in one unit. It uses fish waste to fertilize plants within the system. It uses 80-90% less water than soil farming, while producing higher plant yields. Drought resistant.
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Airdrop Design Pulls Water From Air to Irrigate Deserts
Science & Tech  (tags: Deserts, Airdrop Design, water, environment )

Katie
- 199 days ago - treehugger.com
A continent faced with severe droughts, it is no wonder that Edward Linacre from Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne wanted to come up with a solution that will provide fresh water where there is no source on the ground.
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Sahara Solar Power Plans Could Suck Up 20% of Region's Water - Tech Change Needed
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Agnes
- 202 days ago - treehugger.com
Tapping into the Sahara Desert's vast solar power potential (not to mention wind power) seems like a great idea -- and the first solar power project of the massive Desertec project is scheduled to start construction soon. But should concentrating solar
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Solar Still Makes Water Purification Easy, Works Like An Upside-Down Coffee Maker
Science & Tech  (tags: Solar, Still, Makes, Water, Purification, Easy, Works, Like, an, Upside-Down, Coffee, Maker )

Agnes
- 212 days ago - treehugger.com
The impending water crisis will threaten half of humanity by 2030; limited water supplies have already sparked deadly conflict in Africa. Of the designs to make water collection and purification easy, dependable and affordable, this solar still from
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Nearby Planet-Forming Disk Holds Water for Thousands of Oceans
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Agnes
- 215 days ago - esciencenews.com
For the first time, astronomers have detected around a burgeoning solar system a sprawling cloud of water vapor that's cold enough to form comets, which could eventually deliver oceans to dry planets. Water is an essential ingredient
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On Its 39th Anniversary, The Clean Water Act Needs Defenders
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Agnes
- 219 days ago - treehugger.com
People of a certain age probably remember when it happened. The Cuyahoga (pictured above), which runs through northeastern Ohio and outlets into Lake Erie in Cleveland, was heavily contaminated -- so much so that stretches of the waterway
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Mars Express Finds Water Supersaturation in the Martian Atmosphere
Science & Tech  (tags: astronomy, mars, water, research, science, scientists, interesting )

Ingrid
- 237 days ago - marsdaily.com
New analysis of data sent back by the SPICAM spectrometer on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft has revealed for the first time that the planet's atmosphere is supersaturated with water vapour.
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Development in Fog Harvesting Process May Make Water Available to the World's Poor
Science & Tech  (tags: Harvesting Process, Water, World, Poor )

Anna
- 396 days ago - sciencedaily.com
In the arid Namib Desert on the west coast of Africa, one type of beetle has found a distinctive way of surviving. When the morning fog rolls in, the Stenocara gracilipes species, also known as the Namib Beetle, collects water droplets on its bumpy back,
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