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Flowing water suggests that water ice may have survived in the asteroid for longer than what was thought possible.

Scientists Find Evidence of Flowing Water on Giant Asteroid

By Frank Landymore

The continents are drying so rapidly that they're now contributing more to rising sea levels than melting ice sheets do.

Scientists Alarmed to Discover That Earth’s Continents Are Drying Out

By Frank Landymore

A county where Meta built an enormous data center is set to be in a water deficit by the end of the decade.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Data Centers Accused of Creating Major Problems for Local Water Systems

By Frank Landymore

A retiree in rural Georgia has accused Meta's new AI data center, which is situated around 1,200 feet from her home, of polluting her water.

Woman Says Zuckerberg’s AI Data Center Filled Her Tap Water With Sediment

By Victor Tangermann

After decades of research, scientists have identified an unknown chemical byproduct of a disinfectant used to treat drinking water.

Scientists Identify Strange Chemical in Drinking Water Across the US

By Frank Landymore

Scientists at Pennsylvania State University have uncovered evidence that suggests Mars was a place with many flowing rivers.

Scientists Find Evidence Mars Was Covered in Rivers

By Sharon Adarlo

People were shocked when the waters of Venice's Grand Canal became neon green. Investigation revealed it was due to a non-toxic chemical.

Chemical Turns Waters of Venice Canal a Fluorescent Green

By Sharon Adarlo

A water recycling firm teamed up with a Northern Californian brewery to create the Epic OneWater Brew, a beer made from recycled greywater.

Yum! Environmentally Friendly Beer Made From Used Shower Water

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Planet Earth viewed from Space. Planet Earth Maps Courtesy of NASA: https://visibleearth.nasa.gov/images/144875/earth-at-night-black-marble-2012-color-maps-v2.

Science & Energy

Scientists May Have Finally Figured Out Where Earth’s Water Came From

By Victor Tangermann

It's no secret that AIs like ChatGPT require insane amounts of energy — but as a new paper reveals, they also seem to use an absurd amount of water, too.

ChatGPT Is Consuming a Staggering Amount of Water

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to a new study, the water in our Solar System is likely older than our Sun — and the secret, they say, was discovered in another star.

Water Existed Long Before the Solar System, Astronomers Find

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers discovered that a meteorite contained water just like Earth's, bolstering the theory that our planet got water from other meteorites like it.

Science & Energy

Evidence Grows That Soggy Meteorites Gave Earth Its Oceans

By Frank Landymore

Nearly 180,000 people in Jackson, Mississippi don't have clean drinking water. President Biden approved the state's emergency declaration for Jackson.

The Water System in Jackson, Mississippi Has Effectively Collapsed

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The UK's Environmental Agency announced that Britons may soon be drinking sewage water to counter the region's worsening environmental circumstances.

UK May Have to Make Peace With Drinking Water Made From Sewage, Official Says

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An international team of astronomers have announced the discovery of a "ocean planet" exoplanet orbiting a star some 100 light-years from Earth.

Astronomers Discover Apparent “Ocean Planet” 100 Light-Years From Earth

By Victor Tangermann

On Saturday, park rangers came across yet another set of human remains in Lake Mead. This is the fourth discovery of the like since May.

Rangers Keep Discovering Human Remains in Drying Up Lake

By Maggie Harrison Dupré