Water is everywhere, seriously, making up more than 70 percent of the planet's surface. And you can't survive without it. To keep up with all things H2O, check out the most interesting discoveries related to water, from the stuff you drink, to the droplets that make up the planet's oceans, to water itself in all its glorious strangeness.
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'Now our lives have changed': Drop in coal burning is helping the African Sahel turn green after decades of droughtWarming has brought extreme rain to the parched Sahel, which is seeing aquifers refill as monsoons grow stronger. But heavier downpours alone cannot explain the groundwater revival, say hydrologists, who believe efforts to harvest rainfall may also be paying dividends.
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'It would be a disaster': Ammunition for war is putting the Caspian Sea on the brink of collapseInterview Live Science spoke with professor of civil and environmental engineering Amir AghaKouchak about the reasons behind the Caspian Sea's stark decline over the past three decades.
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Once a 'miracle in the desert,' California's Salton Sea now spreads toxic dust on vulnerable communitiesInterview Medical anthropologist Ann Cheney speaks to Live Science writer Sascha Pare about the heavy toll toxic dust from California's largest inland lake takes on marginalized communities.
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Water shortages could prevent the US from mining more lithium, deepening reliance on foreign importsMost proposed lithium mines in the U.S. overlap with drought-prone regions — including in Nevada, Arizona and California — and there may not be enough water to support them.
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Water might secretly be a mix of 2 different liquids, scientists sayFor decades, scientists suspected water secretly behaves like two different liquids. A new AI-powered study has finally caught it happening at the molecular level.
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'Is it really necessary to generate another image?': UN scientist explains how everyday people can limit AI's environmental impactInterview Live Science spoke with Kaveh Madani, the lead investigator of a United Nations report examining AI's environmental footprint, about this technology's staggering energy use and what users can do to limit their impact.
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Has all the water on Earth been peed before?Life's Little Mysteries Water, water, everywhere … has all of it been peed out at least once?
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Chinese chemists test 'self-cleaning' fabric coating that can remove stains without laundry detergentMaterial scientists in China have created a new kind of coating that keeps clothes clean without the need for wasteful detergents. It could reduce the water and electricity costs of doing laundry by 80%.
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Mangroves clean up $8.7 billion of nitrogen pollution every year, study findsNew research suggests mangroves remove 960,000 tons per year of nitrogen from global water systems, a figure that could rise to more than 5.5 million tons annually if conditions were optimal for the plants.
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