Seawater

Researchers with MIT have discovered a way to easily turn seawater into drinking water by pressing a button. The institute shared news about the discovery back in April. The system relies on a portable desalination unit that can turn impure water into drinking water without filters or high-pressure pumps. MIT scientists made a device that turns seawater into drinking water https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0fpwlRPZRY Turning seawater into drinking water isn’t impossible. But, it often requires heavy,…

High-resolution river water δ7Li, 87Sr/86Sr, and hydrometeorological data from the NE Tibetan Plateau. Weekly variations of δ7Li and 87Sr/86Sr in the carbonate-dominated BH (a) and silicate-dominated SL (b) catchments (Supplementary Fig. 2) along with daily Qw and precipitation, showing inverse trends between δ7Li and Qw in each river. When plotting up weekly data from the two rivers together (c), there is still an overall negative relationship,…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In a study published in the journal Nature Communications, Andrea Mundl-Petermeier and Sebastian Viehmann of the Department of Lithospheric Research at the University of Vienna have demonstrated that a new geochemical archive—182Tungsten in banded iron formations—can be used to simultaneously trace the evolution of both the Earth's mantle and continents throughout Earth's history. This offers…

Beneath a fast-flowing ice stream in West Antarctica, scientists have discovered a vast aquifer brimming with seawater that's likely been locked down there for thousands of years.   This is the first time scientists have detected groundwater beneath an ice stream in Antarctica, and the discovery could reshape our understanding of how the frigid continent reacts to climate change and what kinds of mysterious organisms lurk beneath its many ice shelves.   The newfound groundwater system can be thought of as a giant sponge,…