💧 the #seawater#greenhouse is a really cool idea, literally. It's a way of using evaporating seawater to cool and humidify crops 🌱, which can drastically reduce the amount of fresh #water needed to support the #crop in a desert #climate.
As #climatechange and #freshwater scarcity increasingly challenges crop survival over the coming decades, carbon neutral seawater greenhouses will become much more common.
'The most elegant solutions are sometimes the simplest, like using one waste product to eliminate another. By combining spent coffee grounds with iron oxide (aka rust), Mason engineers have created CoffeeBots, which can bind to several different pollutants in seawater before being removed via magnets. '
Where #Groundwater Levels Are Falling, & Rising, Worldwide
An investigation into nearly 1,700 aquifers across >40 countries found that groundwater levels in almost ½ have fallen since 2000. Only about 7% of the aquifers surveyed had groundwater levels that rose over that same time period.
“Groundwater declines have consequences,” said Scott Jasechko, an assoc prof at the UC Santa Barbara’s Bren School of #EnvironmentalScience & Management, & the study’s lead author. “Those consequences can include causing #streams to leak, lands to sink, #seawater to contaminate coastal aquifers, & wells to run dry.”
…The research, published on Wed in the journal #Nature, confirms widespread #groundwater declines previously found w/satellites & models….
In fact #IDF is literally blowing up every tunnel entry they find on sight...
#Egypt used to pump #Seawater into those tunnels but stopped after protests pointing out this does salten the already overstrained #Aquifers used to pump #freshwater from...
Florida’s Seawater Reaches Bathtub Temperatures In Potential New World Record
As South #Florida’s #seawater#temperature reaches triple digits two days in a row, meteorologists are debating if the spike is an accurate reading. If it is, it represents a #devastating new world record. At 38.3°C (101°F), it matches that of a hot bath and is above normal human body temperature.