Researchers are exploring unconventional sources of fresh water to quench the globe’s growing thirst. In an effort to combat his country’s long-standing water crisis, Iran’s president took to Twitter last year. “We need plan to save water in agriculture, prevent excessive tap water use, protect …
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A Slow Death by the Proper Name…
Since 1954, the World Meteorological Organization has been naming extreme storms after people. But we propose a new naming system. One that names extreme storms

Poverty does bad things to your brain | Futurity
Poverty and the worry that goes with it uses up so much mental energy that the poor have little room in their brains for anything

Why One Nation Wants To Turn Its Undersea Volcanoes Into A National Park | Popular Science
Back in 2008, researchers discovered a massive hydrothermal vent system in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, between Greenland and Norway. This is basically a group of enormous

Climate Change And Violence Linked, Breakthrough Study Finds
Shifts in climate change are strongly linked to human violence around the world, according to a comprehensive new study released Thursday by the University of

Let Us Now Sing About the Warmed Earth
On July 25 the journal Nature published an article about the “Economic time bomb” that is slowly being detonated by Arctic warming. Gail Whiteman of Erasmus University in
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