Most of Earth’s water is in the oceans and too salty to drink. Desalination plants can make seawater drinkable, but they ...

Most of Earth's water is in the oceans and too salty to drink. Desalination plants can make seawater drinkable, but they ...

Researchers have developed a sponge-like material with long, microscopic air pockets that uses sunlight and a simple plastic ...

ASBURY PARK -- On a sunny Thursday morning in June, as a few dozen beachgoers hit the sand near Convention Hall, Danielle ...

Have you ever wondered how much salt you could extract by boiling down seawater? I recently embarked on a hands-on, ...

After just six hours in natural sunlight, this simple system generated about “3 tablespoons” of fresh, drinkable water.

A salt crisis is looming for U.S. rivers The biggest source of salty freshwater in D.C. and other major northern inland cities is an overapplication of road salt to thaw winter ice, which runs off ...

Industries that need ultra-pure water—including semiconductor, battery, pharmaceutical, food and beverage companies—are ...

Researchers in Japan have developed a plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours, offering up a potential solution for a modern-day scourge polluting oceans and harming wildlife.

When placed in a mixture which had the same amount of salt as seawater, they found the new plastic dissolved "quickly in about two to three hours, depending on its thickness and size." ...

By Stef Verhagen Imagine turning seawater into safe drinking water using only sunlight and a sponge-like material. Sounds ...