Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Most studies of groundwater microbe communities focus on free-floating planktonic microbes, which make up less than 10% of an ...

Water is an essential resource for human life, yet safe water for domestic use remains scarce, especially for some communities in low- and middle-income countries. Approximately 785 million people ...

On a cool December day in Brooklyn, New York, in 2014, a group of academic and citizen scientists set off onto one of the most polluted 3 km stretches of water in the US. They’d soon find a thriving ...

A team of scientists has uncovered a hidden risk to freshwater quality that could affect millions worldwide: the shift of lake and river sediment from trapping toxic arsenic to releasing it, driven by ...

Jean-Baptiste Burnet receives funding from the National Research Fund Luxembourg (project 329963 INTER AUDACE) and from the Ministry of Environment (SMARTWATER, CYANOMON and CYANOWATCH projects).