Finding an efficient way to extract uranium from uranium mine wastewater is an essential environmental requirement. A spontaneous electrochemical method is now shown to enable stable and efficient uranium extraction with net electrical energy output.

A promise is a promise. The world must do much better in the second half of the 2030 Agenda timeline to deliver on the 17 SDGs, not least to address the inequalities impacting women and girls by inadequate water, sanitation and hygiene.

This study showcases that balancing-oriented hydropower operation supporting variable renewable energy integration provides a more affordable and water-saving clean energy transition than the conventional peak-shaving-oriented operation.

Improving sanitation technology and service is imperative for everyone, in every country.

Effective flood response management relies on rapid high-resolution and high-accuracy flood inundation predictions. This study develops a low-fidelity model and upskills its predictions, greatly reducing the computational time while maintaining a high resolution and accuracy comparable with a high-fidelity model.

An array of fibre crystallizers quickly evaporates water and selectively extracts lithium from brines.

Lithium mining is both energy and land intensive. The use of a 3D porous natural cellulose fibre structure enables an interfacial crystallization method for the selective extraction of lithium from both brine and seawater that can be a significant alternative to mining.

The adoption of open-hardware technology is changing current river research monitoring practices, reducing the need for scientists to allocate large portions of their budgets to expensive instrumentation.

Ultra-fast water transport with high salt rejection is achieved by a submicron graphdiyne membrane supported on a porous copper hollow fibre.