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Warm Water Causes Aquatic Animals to Suffer from Fatal Respiratory Distress

Until now, the link between rising water temperatures and higher mortality rates in aquatic animals was a bit of a chicken-and-egg situation.

1 Mar 2016

Senior Defense Officials Gather to Address Need for Collaborative Research in Polar Regions

To address the need for collaborative research in the Polar Regions, Chief of Naval Research Rear Adm. Mat Winter met in Finland last week with counterparts from five nations in a first-ever gathering of senior defense officials to coordinate science and technology research in high latitudes.

29 Feb 2016

Researchers Follow Radioactive Waste to Understand Formation of Ocean Currents

After the Fukushima incident in Japan in March of 2011, where the nuclear power plant was hit by a tsunami, scientists used numerical models of ocean currents to predict the possible speed and direction of radioactive materials that had been released.

29 Feb 2016

Warm Ocean Surface Water Prevailed During Last Ice Age in South of Greenland

New research published in Nature Scientific Reports in February indicates that a warm ocean surface water prevailed during the last ice age, sandwiched between two major ice sheets just south of Greenland.

22 Feb 2016

Improved Agricultural Water Management Could Reduce Global Food Gap by 2050

Improved agricultural water management could halve the global food gap by 2050 and buffer some of the harmful climate change effects on crop yields. For the first time, scientists investigated systematically the worldwide potential to produce more food with the same amount of water by optimizing rain use and irrigation. They found the potential has previously been underestimated. Investing in crop water management could substantially reduce hunger while at the same time making up for population growth. However, putting the findings into practice would require specific local solutions, which remains a challenge.

16 Feb 2016

AAAS: Stanford University Professor Highlights Effects of Fossil-Fuel Extraction on Drinking Water

“The answer to that question is 'yes,' but not usually,” said Rob Jackson, a professor of Earth system science at Stanford University.

16 Feb 2016

Researchers Test New Strategy to Optimally Locate Turbines in Urban Water Networks

Urban water networks could host micro-hydropower plants to cover their growing energy needs. Now researchers have tested a new strategy to optimally locate turbines without sacrificing the reliability of the network on the city of Lausanne’s drinking water network.

9 Feb 2016

Researchers Study Impact of Mountaintop Mining on Regional Water Quality

Forty years of mountaintop coal mining have made parts of Central Appalachia 60 percent flatter than they were before excavation, says new research by Duke University.

8 Feb 2016

Hydronet2 Project Focuses on the Future of Switzerland’s Hydropower Sector

EPFL’s Energy Centre has been hosting the Hydronet2 project to promote Switzerland’s position in hydropower across national and international energy markets. The project aims to enhance hydropower plants’ design, manufacture and operation. Hydropower is Switzerland’s main source of renewable energy and contributes towards 56% of electricity production.

19 Jan 2016

Dr. Thomas Bernard and Team Develop Drinking Water Protecting Tools

We place high demands on the quality of our drinking water. If pathogens or toxic substances found their way into the piping system, many people could become infected or injured very quickly.

5 Jan 2016