5 things you can do to reduce your child’s drowning risk
Sometimes just paying attention to kids while they play in the water is not enough. Here are five tips to protect children from drowning.
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PFAS are toxic and they’re everywhere. Here’s how to stay away from them.
There’s not one single source of exposure to PFAS, but you can still curb some of these chemicals in your everyday life.
From the archives: This talking gadget from the 1920s measured water levels
In 1922, Popular Science got a peek at our sensor-filled future with a Rube Goldberg-esque machine. It measured water levels at a reservoir.
Pollution kills 1 in 6 people worldwide
As millions of people die due to pollution, it is time to treat pollutants as the source of a health crisis.
The numbers show just how devastatingly dry the Western US is right now
Western U.S. struggles with the longest dry streak since 800 A.D and its harmful effects on snowpacks, topsoil, and reservoirs.
New water restrictions in California show just how bad the Western drought is
California just experienced the driest January, February, and March on record—months when the state typically gets the most water.
From pollution to dams: here’s what is plaguing America’s 10 most endangered rivers
We depend on our rivers for a lot—drinking water, agriculture, biodiversity. But climate change, in combination with consequences of how natural resources are managed, can have a big impact on how well rivers can do their jobs. And according to a new report from the conservation nonprofit American Rivers, some of the US’s most fabled […]
NASA is watching California’s groundwater crisis from space
The Central Valley’s groundwater reserves are running out, but monitoring these basins from space could help improve management.
Mini desalination plants could refresh the parched West
Fresh water is hard to find in a drought—but local desalination projects could keep it flowing even in historically dry times.
Groundwater is an incredible resource. It’s time to treat it like one.
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