Freshwater resources and reliable and secure coal-based central power systems are inextricably linked. Thermoelectric generation requires a sustainable, abundant and predictable source of freshwater – ...

Power plants draw more freshwater than any other consumer in the United States, accounting for more than 50 percent of the nation's freshwater use at about 500 billion gallons daily. To help save this ...

Whether freshwater plant communities use carbon dioxide or bicarbonate for photosynthesis is largely related to the bicarbonate concentration in their local environment, according to a new study, the ...

As small aquatic habitats disappear at an alarming rate, private garden ponds may help compensate for the loss of natural ...

Despite Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and Ukraine being saturated with 1000 hydropower plants, 400 more are planned or under construction. With thousands of plants in operation, Europe’s ...

Salts that de-ice roads, parking lots and sidewalks keep people safe in winter. But new research shows they are contributing to a sharp and widely rising problem across the U.S. At least a third of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The rate and sensitivity to inhibitors (KCN and salicylhydroxamic acid[SHAM]) of respiratory oxygen uptake has been investigated in ...

Scientists have developed genetic markers to help identify plant species using environmental DNA (eDNA), the traces of biological material (pollen, spores, skin, scales, etc.) that contains an ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Power plants draw more freshwater than any other consumer in the United States, accounting for more than 50 percent of the nation's freshwater use at about 500 billion gallons ...