Clean Water, From a Plant-Based Filter
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If you’re an outdoors person, one of the earliest things you learned was probably that in-field water sources can’t always be…
If you’re an outdoors person, one of the earliest things you learned was probably that in-field water sources can’t always be…
SHARE Clean water might not grow on trees, but those trees might do the next best thing—provide a cheap and easy way of…
A method for every occasion and level of emergency. (Tim MacWelch/) This story was originally featured on Outdoor Life.
Trees save 850 lives per year, says National Forest Service. While trees’ pollution removal equated to an average air quality…
More than a billion people lack access to safe drinking water . From nanotechnology-based purification systems to the portable…
Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States are working with their counterparts in…
New technology based on plant tissue called xylem may help provide safer drinking water, says a study.
Run out of drinking water during a lakeside camping trip? The simply break off a branch from a pine tree, peel away the bark…
En amerikansk ingeniør har lånt et enkelt princip fra naturen, som han mener, vil kunne blive en genvej til rent vand.
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online The next time you find yourself lost in the woods with no clean…
Farmers turn recycled walnut shells into fuel to run their homes and farms. See, "Carbon-negative energy source powers homes on…
Banana peels get a second life as water purifiers. To the surprisingly inventive uses for banana peels — which include…
How to make a xylem filter Boutilier et al / PLOS ONE One way to avoid getting sick while traveling is to only eat fruit that…
A team of researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology has discovered natural and appealing way to use wood filters…
Researchers from MIT have created a water filter fashioned from a small piece of sapwood, an inexpensive and disposable…
If you've run out of drinking water during a lakeside camping trip, there's a simple solution: Break off a branch from the…
Sapwood from a tree branch can be used to filter over 99 percent of E.coli from drinking water, according to the latest…
MIT group shows xylem tissue in sapwood can filter bacteria from contaminated water.
A team of Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have discovered a low-cost, natural way to filter water using tree…
If you've run out of drinking water during a lakeside camping trip, there's a simple solution: Break off a branch from the…
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MIT researchers test an inexpensive water filter fashioned from a pine tree branch, which may provide a low-tech solution to…
Researchers show that xylem tissue in sapwood can filter bacteria from contaminated water.
If you’ve run out of drinking water during a lakeside camping trip, there’s a simple solution: Break off a branch from the…
Can a tree branch filter harmful E. coli bacteria out of water? A small piece of freshly cut sapwood can filter out more than…
A small piece of freshly-cut sapwood can filter out more than 99 percent of the bacteria E. coli from water.
If you've run out of drinking water during a lakeside camping trip, there's a simple solution: Break off a branch from the…
A small piece of freshly cut sapwood can filter out more than 99 percent of the bacteria E. coli from water, according to a…
If you've run out of drinking water during a lakeside camping trip, there's a simple solution: Break off a branch from the…
If you've run out of drinking water during a lakeside camping trip, there's a simple solution: Break off a branch from the…
( PLOS ) A small piece of freshly cut sapwood can filter out more than 99 percent of the bacteria E. coli from water.
( Massachusetts Institute of Technology ) MIT group shows xylem tissue in sapwood can filter bacteria from contaminated water.