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.

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).

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 ...

Atmospheric water harvesting (AWH) technologies represent a transformative approach to mitigating global water scarcity by extracting water vapour from ambient air. Recent advances have focused on 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 ...