In the 1980s, Salt Lake experienced massive rainfall and snow that prompted the state to pump water from the Great Salt Lake into the West Desert. Although it’s not consistent, the area still ...

Evaporation in porous media is a critical process influencing a range of environmental and engineering systems. The interplay between water evaporation, heat transfer and salt crystallisation drives ...

On a hot August day, CU Boulder climatologist Peter Blanken and Ph.D. student Holly Roth cleaned a $50,000 weather station at the edge of Standley Lake to measure a phenomenon even grade schoolers ...

Efforts continue to raise water levels of the Great Salt Lake with 2025 recording its third-lowest water levels on record.

New research on water evaporation could rewrite something we all learned as children. Everyone knows that heat causes water to evaporate, but researchers from MIT have shown that there may be a ...

Green light means “go.” That might apply to evaporating water molecules too. Visible light, especially that of a greenish hue, might spur water to evaporate, researchers report in the Nov. 7 ...

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Light can evaporate water. At least that seems to be the case, according to a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The new study posits that light can ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Water evaporation is a force of nature that has been shaping our planet for billions of years, driving the water cycle and sustaining life on Earth. It is a process that occurs ...

Contrary to what we all learned in elementary school science class, it turns out that heat may not be necessary to make water evaporate. Scientists at MIT have made the surprising discovery that light ...