Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Stock Images Stock photo of fog over a plain. Scientists say fog could support urban resilience as climate change ...
In Chile’s Atacama Desert, scientists discovered that suspended mesh nets can capture meaningful fog water — enough to help serve the irrigation, agriculture, and drinking needs of about 10,000 people ...
For Chileans who live in the Atacama Desert, the Earth's driest desert, getting potable drinking water is a stroke of luck. Drought is a major concern for cities there, which survive on prehistoric ...
Panoramic view of Alto Hospicio, located in Chile's Atacama desert, one of the driest places in the world. Credit: Dr Virginia Carter Gamberini. With less annual rainfall than 1 mm per year, Chile’s ...
Access to clean and reliable water sources is a constant challenge in most arid and impoverished countries. According to UN data, 2.2 billion people lack access to safely managed drinking water ...
LAARE, Kenya – Jacob Murungi and his wife don't sleep much. Instead, they spend their nights in the local forest high in the mountains of central Kenya collecting water — from the trees. "I'm out here ...
A new book uncovers the extraordinary secrets of fog-harvesting beetles in the Namib desert and other insects changing our world Erica McAlister and Adrian Washbourne Sand dunes in Namib Desert, ...
How do you turn mist into usable water? See how scarcity inspires ingenuity in parched Lima, Peru. In the desert city of Lima, a city of 10 million people by the Pacific Ocean, mist is an important ...
Manzoor Qadir receives institutional funding from the Government of Canada through Global Affairs Canada. Vladimir Smakhtin receives institutional funding from Global Affairs Canada. Water scarcity is ...
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