It's not likely to replace the combustion engine anytime soon. At first sight, it looks like an experiment at a high school science fair. But the so-called evaporation engine seems to have more ...

An optimized mechanochemical process produces multifunctional composite particles that remove pollutants from water.

A team of UC Riverside researchers has identified a potential breakthrough in solar desalination that could reduce the need ...

At the interface of water and air, light can, in certain conditions, bring about evaporation without the need for heat, according to a new study. Evaporation is happening all around us all the time, ...

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An advocate noted a Stockholm Environment Institute study found the annual evaporation of water kept in reservoirs is 17 percent of the water currently used for agricultural irrigation. Breaching four ...

California's current record-breaking heat wave in July has caused hundreds of millions of gallons of water in Lake Shasta and other major reservoirs in Northern California to disappear into thin air.