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March 12, 2009 In 1748 the monk/physicist Jean-Antoine Nollet exploded a wine-filled pig's bladder when he submerged it in a trough of water (What did he think would happen?). The resulting discovery ...

The amount of salt in one of New York City’s key sources of drinking water has tripled over three decades and is on track to exceed allowable levels around the turn of the next century, environmental ...

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Winter Storm Warning issued for northern Utah as snow showers move across state A Winter Storm Warning was issued late Thursday night with heavy snow expected in areas such as Heber City, Huntsville ...

The Great Salt Lake is so dry, and its water so salty, that resource managers have partially closed a breach in a railroad causeway to stem the flow of hypersaline water between the north and south ...

Salinity plays a major role in salt marsh grass's response to insect grazing, new research shows. Plants are always trying to deal with infestation by overcompensating and growing more, researchers ...

VALLEY CENTER —- San Diego County’s avocado growers have beenstruggling for years with the soaring cost of water and mandatorycutbacks in its use. But several dozen trees on the Nick StehlyRanch ...

LAHORE: Pakistan is facing an escalating salinity and water-logging crisis that poses a serious threat to agricultural ...

A NASA-built instrument aboard an international satellite has made its first global map of the saltiness of Earth's seas, just three months after the high-tech sensor rocketed into orbit. On the ...