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Deep-ocean drilling researchers target earthquake and tsunami zone.

In late November, the ANDRILL drilling team passed the 3,000-foot mark in rock core pulled from beneath the sea floor in McMurdo Sound, and with a remarkable recovery rate of more than 98 percent. The expected final total should exceed more than 3,600 feet – the second-deepest rock core drilled in Antarctica.

Scientists have discovered that the older the water filter, the better when it comes to reducing the off-putting earthy taste of some tap water.

Atlas Copco recently announced it has acquired the remaining 75 percent of shares in its joint venture company.

With the firestorms that swept through Southern California having gotten under control, state officials are turning their attention to an even more serious, long-term problem that will most likely affect not only California but several states. The concern: water.

Cirque de Soleil founder Guy Laliberte has announced the official launch.

Wells and ground water will be an integral part of a traveling exhibit on water that will tour the world’s leading science museums.

Abul Hussam, who invented an arsenic-removing, point-of-use home water filter, has been named one of TIME Magazine’s Heroes of the Environment for 2007.

The research team from the Geodynamics Department at the University of Granada and the Spanish Institute of Geology and Mining has studied the hydrogeology of the karst aquifers in the

As sea levels rise, coastal communities could lose up to 50 percent more of their fresh water supplies than previously thought, according to a new study.