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Water harvesting from foggy air provided up to 5 liters of water a day in a yearlong Chilean desert experiment.

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Since its founding in 2006, the Mojave Desert Land Trust has conserved over 100,000 acres, conveying more tracts of land to ...

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The discovery of a new species in the Andean cloud forests of northern Peru has reinforced the vital role of citizen science ...

In Alto Hospicio, "fog harvesting" could generate between 0.2 and 5 liters of water per square meter each day.

Scientists reveal a never-before-seen species of leopard-size apex predator that lived in lush forest 30 million years ago.