Freshwater may soon flow from the deep sea to drought-stricken coastal cities. A handful of companies are exploring how ...

DEAD SEA — It is an unparalleled wonder of the world: the lowest exposed spot on Earth, its therapeutic waters are so full of salt that bathers float right to the top. This natural spa is a ...

The enemy? Sea water being sucked into the same wells that provide fresh drinking water to surrounding communities. "And the physics of it are basically like, if we're pulling in sea water ...

The sea here is choked by pollution. “I cannot swim anymore … the water changed,” said the photographer, who has traveled the Caspian’s southern shore, documenting its decline. The Caspian ...

It’s these extreme climate-driven events — piled on top of sea level rise — that are concerning, said Holly Michael, a professor at the University of Delaware who studies groundwater dynamics and ...

But over the decades, Soviet authorities diverted rivers that flowed into the sea to irrigate cotton and other crops. The world’s fourth-largest inland body of water — which covered an area ...

SCARDOVARI, Italy, June 29 (Reuters) - The worst drought in 70 years has meant salt water from the Adriatic sea is flowing back into the sluggish Po, Italy's longest river, doing further damage to ...

The sun and the sea -- both abundant and free -- are being harnessed in a unique project to create vertical sea farms floating on the ocean that can produce fresh water for drinking and agriculture.