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A country town has unveiled plans to float thousands of double-sided solar panels on a pontoon on a water storage basin. It's expected to save tonnes of greenhouse emissions.  

Water levels at the Poyang freshwater lake, the largest freshwater lake in China, have dropped to a historic low. This comes after months of drought that have affected normal life and economic activities. The water levels...

If the climate becomes drier, farmers in some parts of SA's Eyre Peninsula could find it harder to make a living. But they're already adapting to an uncertain future of climate change and dwindling townships.

In most of our houses grey water, or waste water, goes down the drain for treatment elsewhere. But what if it went up to your roof and then came out of your taps ready for drinking?

With the Narrabri Gas Project given the green light, farmers are wondering what is next for gas.

A remote Central Australian community will trial a technology that boosts supplies of drinking water using solar power and air, after battling water security issues for several years.

La Trobe University wants to reach a zero emissions target within 10 years to try to be Victoria's first carbon-neutral tertiary facility.

I notice they avoided calling it a *** dream From The Watchers Posted by TW on April 3, 2019 at 19:46 UTC (1 day ago) Categories: Featured articles, Ice & snow, Water crisis They note: Snowpack at the station was at 200%...

One town's ground-breaking new technology is harvesting sun and air to create water.

While the meat industry's negative impacts on the environment have proved troublesome for some time, an assembly of scientists from various European research institutes have released a thorough analysis of the Earth's food...

Researchers in the United States and Australia design systems that can extract water from dry desert air without using fuel.

Cape Town in South Africa is battling its worst drought in a century - and the city's water supply is in trouble. Authorities are scrambling to drill boreholes and construct desalination plants, but Day Zero - when water...

The giant 95kWh Tesla PowerPack battery is the first to be installed in Australia, and will power a water disinfection plant built to cater for the growing population of Logan, south of Brisbane.

Kenya's capital city, Nairboi, is dangerously low on water. The city, home to around 3.4 million people, has been rationing water since January 1, but it may not be enough. 60 percent of residents already don't have reliable...