SANTIAGO, Chile — As cities worldwide grapple with water shortages, researchers in northern Chile are turning their attention ...

As cities grow, so does their demand for water, often surpassing the capacity of traditional sources. Many fast-expanding ...

Fog harvesting — a technology similar to the moisture farms used on the desert planet Tatooine in Star Wars — has the potential to provide fresh water in certain areas on Earth, scientists say. In ...

SEASIDE — The Defense Department awarded a $266,589 grant to CSU Monterey Bay professor Dan Fernandez for fog collection research and to learn more about what is a common weather phenomenon on campus.

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If you live in an area of the Bay where fog is common, you might be able to tap into another source of water for your garden. Fog and dew collection is an actual practice around the world where water ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The global challenge of freshwater scarcity has spurred scientists to explore innovative solutions for sustainable water collection. Among these, fog harvesting has emerged as a ...

A research team at Virginia Tech has improved the traditional design of fog nets to increase their collection capacity by threefold Fog harvesting may look like whimsical work. After all, installing ...

Oman plans to generate thousands of liters of water a day thanks to a budding technology that collects and stores fog droplets. In the second year of a five-year “fog collection project,” Omani ...

When San Francisco is not enveloped in fog, Sutro Tower can be seen from all over the city — and that's what makes it an ideal location for fog collection. "On an average day last summer, we'd collect ...

The study demonstrates how a vertical array of parallel wires may change the forecast for fog harvesters. In a design the researchers have dubbed the 'fog harp,' these vertical wires shed tiny water ...