Some four miles off the Southern California coast, a company is betting it can solve one of desalination’s biggest problems by moving the technology deep ...

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A water district drawing down water from its own reservoir should not be controversial. It should be expected. That is, quite literally, what reservoirs are built for: to store water in wet times and ...

The effort is drawing bipartisan support and is expected to come up again next year as officials grapple with the artificial intelligence boom’s side effects. States facing drought and dwindling ...

MIT researchers have found a way to use the mechanical vibrations of sound waves to shake water molecules free from a storage medium. The breakthrough significantly speeds up the process of harvesting ...

As the everyday use of AI has exploded in recent years, so have the energy demands of the computing infrastructure that supports it. But the environmental toll of these large data centers, which suck ...

The rise of AI is changing the world in more ways than one. As this booming new industry revolutionizes the way we live and work, scientists are racing to quantify its environmental impact as well.

If your data centers are guzzling more water than a major US city, you face a choice: come clean to the public and risk bad press — or hide the evidence to keep key figures in the green. For Amazon ...

Call it H 2 0 2.0. Water is essential to life — it serves as building material for cells, helps regulate body temperature and lubricates joints. Though it is so crucial, many Americans aren’t ...

Heating water is one of the most energy-consuming and costly household tasks. According to the Department of Energy, it makes up roughly 18% of a standard home's monthly energy budget. And if you use ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A group of experts says Western states urgently need to cut water use to avert a deepening crisis on the Colorado ...

The company has since taken down the image of the accused killer. Fast fashion giant Shein is conducting an investigation of its internal processes after using the likeness of Luigi Mangione to model ...