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 ...
One number buzzed among the crowd gathered at a recent conference in Tempe: 1 billion cubic meters of water per year. In more familiar terms, that’s 264 billion gallons, the size of 400,000 ...