How much fresh water is in the United States? It's a tough question, since most of the water is underground, accessible at varying depths. In previous decades, it's been answered indirectly from data ...

Because of shifting storms and sweltering summers, Iran’s capital faces a future “Day Zero” when the taps run dry. These cascading impacts stem from a prolonged shortage of precipitation in recent ...

Decreasing precipitation and rising populations could bring a perfect storm of water shortages for the United States. Where is our water going? A thunderstorm sweeps across Nevada, a state in which ...

Tehran's main water sources are in a dire situation, with two major dams reaching what officials are calling "dead capacity". Each night after work, Shervin returns to his apartment in the centre of ...

The US is the location of most new data centres but the UK is expanding quickly Data centres powering artificial intelligence (AI) in Scotland are using enough tap water to fill 27 million half-litre ...

The volume levels of certain media files playing on your computer can often be underwhelming — even at 100%. There are several reasons for this. Some media is simply recorded at a low volume level, ...

Dam construction since 1835 has caused Earth's poles to "wander" away from the planet's rotational axis because of the massive weight of water reservoirs. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

The Western U.S. is confronting a growing groundwater crisis exacerbated by factors such as rising temperatures and water demand. A legal expert is proposing multiple reforms to aid in the ...

BRUSSELS, June 11 (Reuters) - (This June 11 story has been refiled to correct a typo in the headline) The European Union has offered to subsidise airline purchases of more than 200 million litres of ...

The report, authored by the International Bottled Water Association, says bottled water’s total consumption value in 2024 was 16.4 billion gallons, with a growth rate of 2.9 percent. Photo courtesy of ...

Each time you ask an AI chatbot to summarize a lengthy legal document or conjure up a cartoon squirrel wearing glasses, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: ...

Rural communities in arid regions have harvested tiny droplets of fog for years as a source of fresh drinking water. Now, researchers say that fog water can be a practical supplement to stave off ...