What beavers, nature’s engineers, can teach us about managing water
In areas increasingly threatened by droughts and floods due to climate change, beaver dams have proven time and again to be useful.
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The truth about hydration hacks like IV therapies, alkaline water, and more
From raw water to activated charcoal to alkaline, there are countless hydration hacking beverages that promise to juice you up more than plain H2O.
There’s something in the water at Pearl Harbor—and it’s making kids sick
The Feindt family’s story from the Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii reveals a series of Navy missteps during an ongoing water-contamination crisis.
What it’s like to drink water that’s 15,000 years old
‘Fossil’ groundwater could be one of the most important sources of drinking water in drought-stricken Western states.
How much water should you drink in a day?
There’s a popular notion that we all need to be chugging eight cups of water everyday for optimal health—but that may not be 100% correct.
Are ‘water positive’ pledges from tech companies just a new kind of greenwashing?
Google and Facebook say they’ll put more water into local reserves than they’ll take out for their data centers.
Almost half of the world’s children live in dangerous climate conditions
Children have sounded the alarm on the climate crisis for years. The #FridaysforFuture movement exploded in late 2018 after the now-famed teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg began a protest outside of the Swedish parliament. Her actions sparked global protests from children and young adults worldwide, telling adults that there was no point in attending school […]
A little-known cache of water tore apart this California cannabis-farming community
As hydrologists try to model the Shasta Valley’s rich groundwater reserves, one local government is clamping down on an ethnic minority’s cannabis farms.
4 reasons to let your lawn grow wild
A beautiful lawn doesn’t have to be plain—and you can make a difference for the environment by getting a little creative.
Sorry, there’s probably no water under the South Pole of Mars
%%excerpt%% A new study gives evidence for alternate explanations to the Martian lakes hypothesis.