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Founded in 1944, the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science develops philanthropic support for the Weizmann Institute in Israel, and advances its mission of science for the future of humanity.
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/blog/a-world-without-coral-damages-us-all/
Jun 20, 2018... This is not a hoax: climate change is real, and it is killing coral. These Great Barrier Reef before-and-after photos show the degree of devastation that can ta ... Read more
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/blog/day-zero-what-happens-when-the-tap-goes-dry/
Mar 29, 2018... Cape Town, South Africa, may very well become the first city in modern times to run out of water. The day they expect the taps to run dry is called Day Zero, th ... Read more
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/news-releases/first-oceans-may-have-been-acidic/
Mar 15, 2017...
Drs. Itay Halevy and Aviv Bachan reveal the earliest effects of atmosphere and weathering on the ocean
One way to understand how ocean acidity can change – ... Read more
May 18, 2017...
Prof. Rybtchinski’s self-assembling membrane for water purification
Separation technology is at the heart of water purification, sewage treatment, and mate ... Read more
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/news-releases/making-spines-from-sea-water/
Nov 30, 2016... Some sea creatures cover themselves with hard shells and spines, while vertebrates build skeletons out of the same minerals. How do these animals get the calciu ... Read more
Apr 06, 2009... REHOVOT, ISRAEL—April 6, 2009—The design of efficient systems, driven by sunlight, for splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen is among the most important chal ... Read more
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/the-active-life-of-coral-visualized/
Jul 04, 2014...
Particle paths are shown in gold and green; coral polyps are pink and purple Vicente Fernandez
You are looking at a sea of small-scale activity surrounding ... Read more
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/news-releases/coral-on-a-chip-cracks-coral-mysteries/
Mar 16, 2016...
The mouth of a coral polyp (center): Symbiotic algae are labeled in red; pathogenic bacteria that enter through this region are labeled in blue
We know tha ... Read more
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/recipe-unearthed-for-mystery-clouds/
Jul 18, 2017...
‘Mystery clouds’ of the type studied at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. Photograph: Ilan Koren
The weather forecast had predicted a cloudless da ... Read more
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/feature-stories/water-protection-modeling-and-management/
Jun 01, 2008... Looking at the blue expanses wrapping the globe, one can hardly imagine that a planet covered mostly by water could experience water shortages. Yet 97 percent o ... Read more
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