Catholic University of Chile research station coordinator Nicolas Zanetta carries part of a fog collection system in Chile's Atacama Desert on April 19, 2016. MARTIN BERNETTI / AFP At a time when ...

Scientists have developed a bioinspired yarn capable of harvesting water from fog, providing an innovative solution to water scarcity in arid regions. By imitating the alternating hydrophobic and ...

Fog harvesting may look like whimsical work. After all, installing giant nets along hillsides and mountaintops to catch water out of thin air sounds more like folly than science. However, the practice ...

In some of the most arid regions of the world, from the Sahara to the Andes, special nets have long been used to catch moisture from the air, turning fog into drinking water. These fog harvesters are ...

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By Maxwell Radwin Chile’s Atacama Desert is one of the driest places in the world. Some areas only see rainfall a few times ...

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 ...