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A Startup Has a Plan to Make Water From Air Using Data Centers’ Waste Heat
Atoco’s new machines use specialized materials that can harvest water from some of the driest air on Earth without using electricity.
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The GuardianWorld
US households pay 62% more for water than they did a decade ago, study finds
For-profit water corporations, federal cuts and climate crisis are ‘supercharging water rate hikes’, study co-author says US households are paying 62% more for drinking water than they did a decade ago – outpacing inflation, grocery prices and household incomes, according to a new study. Food & Water Watch, a…
BBC NewsScience
Yorkshire Water admits sewage scheme falls short
The firm says the scheme to reduce storm overflow discharges has not performed as expected.
BBC NewsScience
Puffin island on cusp of closure as it runs out of water
Lundy is in "real jeopardy" and could be evacuated if supplies run out, bosses say.
NPRScience
Warm ocean waters may have led to first known sea turtle nesting in California
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with marine ecologist Jeff Seminoff about the first known natural sea turtle nesting on California's shores.
NPRWorld
France's police fire tear gas and water cannons as school protests sweep the country
More than a quarter of a million people rallied nationwide to support school students demanding more education funding, according to government figures, with thousands of arrests.
The GuardianClimate
‘They take our water, our soil’: protesters fight ‘foreignisation’ as Javier Milei encourages land sales in Argentina
The country’s far-right president is courting billionaire investors by removing a block on foreign ownership of land and natural resources On 19 September, Marta Sahores, an 84-year-old chemistry professor and activist who has mobilised against mega-mining projects for more than two decades, took to the streets in…
NASAScience
The Beaver Brown Waters of Rupert Bay
Dissolved organic matter and suspended sediment mingle in the southernmost extent of James Bay.
ScienceDailyScience
Scientists just found a new way to make hydrogen from water
A new light-activated material can efficiently produce hydrogen from water without requiring an additional expensive metal catalyst. Researchers say its unusual sulfur-based chemistry could point toward cheaper and more practical ways to turn sunlight into clean fuel.
ScienceDailyScience
Diet drinks work as well as water for weight loss, major trial finds
A two-year randomized clinical trial involving 493 adults with overweight or obesity found that diet soft drinks were essentially as effective as water for long-term weight loss and weight maintenance. Participants drinking beverages sweetened with aspartame, acesulfame-K, or sucralose lost a similar amount of weight…
The GuardianWorld
Tropical Storm Isaias near Mexico is forecast to become a hurricane
Isaias, which succeeded Tropical Depression Nine, would be the first hurricane of the belated Atlantic season Tropical Storm Isaias formed early on Wednesday in the warm waters off eastern Mexico and forecasters said it was expected to strengthen into the first hurricane of the belated Atlantic season before hitting…
The New York TimesWorld
How a Shadow Economy in Asia Is Keeping Iranian Oil Flowing
Companies continue to service a “dark fleet” of Iranian tankers in waters off Malaysia in spite of Washington’s threat to target them.
The New York TimesPolitics
As Race Tightens, Republicans Resume Tepid Support For Max Miller in Ohio
The embattled congressman, accused of throwing scalding water at his ex-wife and breaking his daughter’s collarbone, rebuffed earlier Republican calls to drop out.
ScienceDailyScience
Earth’s center is moving, and NASA just measured it
Earth’s center of mass is constantly on the move, shifting by a few millimeters as enormous amounts of water, ice, and even air migrate around the planet with the seasons. NASA scientists have developed a more precise way to track these tiny swings using laser-ranging satellites, GPS data, and measurements of how…
NPRWorld
Actress Eva Marie Saint, who won an Oscar for 'On the Waterfront,' dies at 102
Saint won an Oscar for her portrayal of Edie, a Catholic schoolgirl whose longshoreman brother is murdered. She went on to star in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest.
The GuardianWorld
Eva Marie Saint, star of North by Northwest and On the Waterfront, dies aged 102
Landmark roles were in 50s classics directed by Elia Kazan and Alfred Hitchcock, before going on to play Superman’s adoptive mother in later life Eva Marie Saint, one of the last survivors of Hollywood’s golden age of the 1940s and 50s, has died aged 102. Her screen work spanned six decades: Saint made her screen…
The New York TimesCulture
Eva Marie Saint, Oscar Winner for ‘On the Waterfront,’ Is Dead at 102
A luminous beauty with dramatic depth, she brought a layered intensity to harrowing roles and seduced Cary Grant in the romantic thriller “North by Northwest.”
Ars TechnicaTechnology
OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT outputs by default—but only in the EU
Like other solutions, it is not especially reliable, and it's easy to circumvent.
The GuardianCulture
‘I was so out of control!’ Bez on cocaine, Happy Mondays, his ‘sexless marriage’ to Shaun Ryder, organic courgettes …
Drugs, drink and dancing made Bez famous. Thirty-five years on, has he really swapped it all for filtered water, intermittent fasting and walks with the dogs? Bez has both shoelaces undone and it’s making me nervous. Out walking his dogs, we’re up and over barbed wire, across streams and over gates. We bash through…
BBC NewsWorld
Yemeni military says it has 'secured' Red Sea waterway
Saudi-backed forces gave conflicting reports of whether they had also seized the port city of Mokha, near the Bab al-Mandab Strait.
