Hot air holds more moisture than cold air. That simple truth, while familiar to anyone who’s used a blow dryer or walked outside after a humid shower, is driving a hidden shift in how droughts behave.

Droughts are becoming more severe and widespread across the globe. But it's not just changing rainfall patterns that are to blame. The atmosphere is also getting thirstier. In a new study published in ...

As the atmospheric water harvesting industry looks to scale up, it faces challenges, opportunities and ethical conundrums.

A researcher from Turkey’s Tarsus University has investigated eight different configurations of PV-supported hybrid atmospheric water harvesting (AWH) systems. AWH systems extract water vapor from the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Moisture extracted from the atmosphere of Mars could provide a valuable alternative water supply if humans are ever to inhabit the ...

Solomon Gebrechorkos receives funding from the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO; grant no. 201880) and the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC; grant no. NE/S017380/1).

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One number buzzed among the crowd gathered at a recent conference in Tempe: 1 billion cubic meters of water per year. In more ...