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

And on all sides, the air is alive with the songs of desert birds. The deserts of the Southwest provide excellent birding.

Sometimes words fall hopelessly short. This might explain the silences between the two botanists as their vehicle crunches ...

Fog is a cheap and abundant source of fresh water, especially in remote dry regions. And it also has great potential for cities. How does fog collection work, and where it is already being used?

SANTIAGO, Chile — As cities worldwide grapple with water shortages, researchers in northern Chile are turning their attention skyward, not for rain, but for fog. In Alto Hospicio, a rapidly ...

Water is the key to survival in the desert. Search for signs of life like vegetation or animal tracks leading to springs or ...

An important water source in Iraq’s southern province of Dhi Qar is drying up, affecting thousands of people and threatening ...

Capturing water from fog - on a large scale - could provide some of the driest cities in the world with drinking water. This ...

Researchers may have just found a way to establish a renewable water resource in one of the driest places in the world. Using pieces of mesh, these fog-harvesting machines collect water droplets and ...

Chile’s Atacama Desert is one of the driest places in the world. The main water source of cities in the region are underground rock layers that contain water-filled pore spaces which last ...

El Paso Water broke ground recently on an advanced water purification facility that will produce drinking water from treated ...