Small, everyday actions to minimize water use add up the more people do them. By Anna Diamond Michael Kimmelman’s recent story on Los Angeles’s water needs included a surprising fact: The city has ...

All sorts of nasties—lead, mercury, radium, nitrates, norovirus, agricultural runoff, PFAS, and more—can lurk in your water. No surprise, then, that about 40% of U.S. homes filter theirs. But the ...

Making ice requires more than subzero temperatures. The unpredictable process takes microscopic scaffolding, random jiggling and often a little bit of bacteria. We learn in grade school that water ...

What we do and how we do it impacts whether our drinking water is dirty or clean. Pollution can travel below the land surface and contaminate our water supply. But over the years, processes have been ...

NEW ORLEANS, March 20, 2024 — From abstract-looking cloud formations to roars of snow machines on ski slopes, the transformation of liquid water into solid ice touches many facets of life. Water’s ...

This February, 14 lorries set out from Wilmington, North Carolina, with a toxic cargo: more than 150 tonnes of grit-like carbon that had soaked up harmful chemicals from the city’s drinking water. The ...

Climate change is making plastic pollution more mobile, toxic, and widespread, accelerating risks for wildlife, ecosystems, ...