June 13, 2019 Prosecutors drop charges against 8 in Flint probe, vow new investigation Michigan prosecutors on Thursday dropped pending charges against eight people tied to the Flint water crisis that left the city's water system tainted with led and pledged to re-start the investigation from scratch.
April 2, 2019 Mars may have significant amounts of water underneath the surface In 2018, scientists made the incredible discovery that they had found a "stable body of liquid water" on Mars. A new study takes that one step further and suggests that the water thought to be responsible for dark streaks on the Red Planet may be coming from well below the surface.
March 22, 2019 We McDonald: I used to take water for granted but then THIS changed me forever Going to Rwanda for the first time felt a lot like entering my blind audition on "The Voice" three years ago: some nerves, but no expectation, just wide open to the experience.
March 15, 2019 Waterfalls can spring from rivers spontaneously The breathtaking waters that cascade off of steep cliffs may be self-made productions.
March 13, 2019 Water molecules bounce around the Moon. Here's why. When the clock strikes lunar noon, water molecules begin to dance around on the light side of the moon.
January 6, 2019 Huge trash collection boom in Pacific Ocean breaks apart A trash collection device deployed to corral plastic litter floating in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii has broken apart and will be hauled back to dry land for repairs.
August 15, 2018 Blue-green toxic algae invades Florida river As Florida reels from the ‘red tide’ algae bloom on its Gulf Coast, a freshwater bloom on the other side of the state has caused blue-green toxic slime to invade the St. Lucie River.
August 14, 2018 Southern California actually 'breathes' water Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have gathered hundreds of satellite images from between 1992 and 2011. The images, turned into a GIF, show how the ground in the southern part of the world's fifth largest economy rises and falls when groundwater is pumped in and out of aquifers beneath the surface.
August 10, 2018 A weird water behavior that intrigued Da Vinci finally has an explanation In the 16th century, Leonardo da Vinci first described a fascinating phenomenon involving water that later became known as the hydraulic jump. And a mere five centuries later, scientists have finally explained why it happens.
July 24, 2018 Watch: Chinese skyscraper boasts 350-foot waterfall streaming down its side It sounds like something out of sci-fi cityscape—a massive waterfall plunging 350-feet along the side of skyscraper—but in China it’s reality.
