Firefighting planes are dumping water from the ocean on the Los Angeles fires, but using saltwater is typically a last resort ...

Engineers develop electrodes to remove boron from seawater, cutting desalination costs and boosting sustainability in water ...

Water desalination plants could replace expensive chemicals with new carbon cloth electrodes that remove boron from seawater, an important step of turning seawater into safe drinking water.

A plan to provide firefighters in Los Angeles and Orange counties almost limitless seawater to fight fires has been stalled ...

The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has detected a slight drop in dissolved oxygen levels in the waters off ...

Water is vital for life, yet freshwater scarcity is a growing global issue. Traditional desalination methods consume ...

Hotels on Greek islands may be filling their swimming pools with seawater this summer in response to worsening drought ...

Researchers report in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces a yarn-like battery prototype that works when immersed in seawater ...

Aerial firefighters are scooping up water from the Pacific Ocean to battle the Palisades fire. But saltwater is corrosive and ...

The design uses the features of seawater to its advantage by utilizing the sodium, chloride, and sulfate ions as the battery's electrolyte.

ATHENS, Greece — Hotels on Greek islands may be filling their swimming pools with seawater this summer in response to worsening drought conditions, under new legislation being debated in parliament.

He noted that the seawater being dumped on the LA fires is “full-strength, salty ocean water”. “Our experiment found that salt was causing clay and other particles to disperse and move about ...