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Paddleboarder Sees Clump Of Feathers In Water And Realizes It's Breathing

It was a sunny, warm day in Southwest Florida last month when an unsuspecting paddleboarder suddenly made a frightening discovery. She spotted a ball of feathers floating in the water from afar, and ...
Everyday Health

The Truth About 6 Possible Benefits of Drinking Cayenne Pepper Water

Adding a little spice to your diet can boost your health. Research has shown many health benefits of capsaicin, the active ingredient in cayenne pepper. But that doesn't necessarily mean you'll get ...

Wading Birds are a symbol of Florida. Here's why they're also so important to the state

Survivors of the "plume trade" that decimated bird species, the wading bird is a symbol of Florida valued not just by birdwatchers.
Indiatimes

Serious health risks of drinking water while standing: Heartburn, dizziness, joint strain, and more

Drinking water while standing can affect your health. A study shows it impacts fluid distribution in the body. It may impair digestion and increase heartburn risk. Dizziness and fatigue are also ...
Indiatimes

Flying water bottle! This bird can carry water for 30 kilometers like a sponge!

In a remarkable discovery, scientists have unraveled the secret of the Namaqua sandgrouse, a desert bird capable of carrying water in its feathers to its chicks. Male sandgrouse fly long distances to ...
Sydney Morning Herald

Sydney Water ‘did not adequately test’ before claiming city’s catchment had no toxic hotspots

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Sydney Water failed to perform adequate due diligence before claiming there were no PFAS hotspots within its drinking water catchments, ...
Mother Jones

We Can Remove Toxic Forever Chemicals From Drinking Water. Why Aren’t We?

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. A new study finds that technologies installed to remove “forever chemicals” from ...
chrislynchmedia

Greenpeace calls for Cantabrians to bring polluted drinking water to ECan in protest rally

Greenpeace is holding a rally outside Environment Canterbury on the council’s final sitting day before elections, to bring nitrate-contaminated drinking water directly to the regional council. The ...
KSL

Water harvesting devices pull drinking water from the air in deserts, but face criticism

DEATH VALLEY, Calif. — The arid desert landscape of Death Valley is not the obvious place to find water. Yet it's here, in one of the planet's hottest and driest places, that Massachusetts Institute ...
thecooldown

Chemical giant dragged to court over shocking scandal in public drinking water: 'Exposed to real and ongoing harm'

Judge Joseph R. Goodwin ordered Chemours to bring its Washington Works plant in West Virginia into compliance by stopping excessive discharges of HFPO-DA into the Ohio River. HFPO-DA is a ...
The Conversation

You can be exposed to PFAS through food, water, even swimming in lakes – new maps show how risk from ‘forever chemicals’ varies

Penn State provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation US. University of Connecticut provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. Since the 1940s, companies have been using PFAS ...