Treated ground water is not directly consumed by us. It's used in public drinking water supplies, agricultural crop irrigation, and industrial manufacturing processes like cooling towers and underground aquifers. But how do we actually "treat" groundwater? Well, one way is by modeling filtration infrastructure after actual biofilms. In this article, let's take a look at how taking inspiration from nature's controversial microscopic living beings benefits us. What Are Biofilms

One of the largest and worst oil spills in history was the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. In 2010, a Deepwater Horizon oil rig had sunk in the Gulf of Mexico because a bubble of methane gas escaped from the well and shot up to a pipe, causing an explosion. This explosion released an extremely dangerous amount of oil and gas. By the time officials were able to control the oil rig and cap the well, the rig was estimated to have lost around 3.19 million barrels of oil and 11 human

A Layer 9 data center in Mexico The past couple of months, my for you page has been flooded with videos and articles pointing out global water bankruptcy. If you don't know this term, the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) published a report stating that our global long-term water use has exceeded the amount of safe and sustainable water that our planet can actually support. We essentially are using too much compared to what we h

We all know the dreadful and nose scrunching smell produced from swamps and bogs. However, the methane produced from them is far more devastating to our atmosphere and global warming. Although we all know that methane itself is an extremely large part of emissions, we tend to focus on how industrial and man-made efforts are the greatest cause of the growing percentage of methane- but due to global warming, now our own natural and wild landscapes are the forefront of its emis