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The county’s Department of Planning is creating a public tool that will help reduce flood risk for human life and property while protecting and restoring Maui County’s important natural wetland ecosystems, county officials announced.

Today, the Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) announced its ninth round of seed grants to support innovative research projects at MIT. The grants are designed to fund research efforts that tackle challenges related to water and fo

State testing data released this week offers the first detailed snapshot of the radioactive contaminants in wastewater stored at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Plymouth.

Wisconsin Sea Grant Director Jim Hurley said we live in the mouth of the largest freshwater estuary in the world and there’s a lot of work to do to protect it.

Guam households have historically paid a high cost for electricity because most power plants on the island still rely on expensive imported fossil fue...

The funding would support conservation efforts in the Chagrin River Floodplain, reduce single-use plastics and introduce students to new trash-cleanup technology.

MIT researchers developed a new approach to building deformable underwater robots, using simple repeating substructures. The team demonstrated the new system in two different example configurations, one like an eel and the other a wing-like hydrofoil.

The funds are part of the $1.7-trillion federal government omnibus funding bill for fiscal year 2023.

A new analysis considers natural fluctuations and predictability to evaluate which parts of an ecosystem are most threatened by climate change and other disturbances.

An MIT team has come up with a predictive way of evaluating ecosystems to rank the relative vulnerabilities of different species, and to detect species that are under threat but could otherwise go unnoticed.