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Gulf Oil Slick Drifts Closer To Florida’s Beaches
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 3rd, 2010
National Public Radio: Florida has been working hard to remind potential visitors that it's still a good vacation destination, despite the Gulf oil spill. The state's tourism bureau has been running ads saying its beaches are "oil-free." But with the increasing likelihood that oil could appear off the panhandle by this weekend, Gov. Crist says the state may have to "rebrand."
Desalination plant opens in London
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 2nd, 2010
BBC: The Duke of Edinburgh has opened what is thought to be the first water desalination plant on the UK mainland. The facility in Beckton, east London, is part of Thames Water's plan to tackle water shortages in the capital. It said the £270m centre would deliver up to 140 million litres of water to 400,000 homes in a drought. The plant will be run by using renewable biofuels such as cooking oil and waste fat in an effort to reduce its impact on the ...
Digging tips to avoid arsenic contamination
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 2nd, 2010
SciDev.Net: Three simple tips concerning where to dig wells in arsenic affected areas and pump water for irrigation could go a long way in reducing exposure to unsafe levels of the element in affected areas of South and South-East Asia, a review suggests. These are: wells should be dug as deep as possible in arsenic affected areas; into deep orange sands rather than grey sands or shallow orange sands; and every effort should be made to prevent pumping water for irrigation from deeper, low-arsenic ...
Misregulation Aiding Plunder of Fish, Other Resources
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 2nd, 2010
Inter Press Service: The resources society derives from nature have been horribly mismanaged and this will lead to the children of the world's poorest people remaining in poverty, according to Paul Collier. The easiest of these resources to regulate is fish, but we have not even managed to get that right, he said. The Oxford professor and development expert spoke Tuesday in Washington about his new book, "The Plundered Planet: Why We Must - and How We Can - Manage Nature for Global Prosperity". One ...
United States: Report finds delta among most vulnerable rivers
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 2nd, 2010
San Francisco Chronicle: Japan politics shaken by PM Hatoyama's resignation 06.02.10 Israel to expel all activists by day's end 06.02.10 Stocks rise after pending home sales top forecasts 06.02.10 Tax credits fuel 6 pct. rise in April home sales 06.02.10 The river system that makes up the backbone of the state's economy ranks as one of the most imperiled watersheds in the nation, putting at risk drinking water for millions of Californians as well as billions of dollars worth of crops and urban infrastructure, ...
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Comments Off on United States: Report finds delta among most vulnerable riversNASA satellite image reveals record low snow for the United States
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 2nd, 2010
Mongabay: According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, snow cover retreated to its lowest extent ever recorded in North America by the end of this April. Snow cover was 2.2 million square kilometers below average. With records of snow extent beginning in 1967, this is the lowest in 43 years and the largest negative anomaly in the past 521 months. A new image released by NASA shows just how little snow cover remained in April. Almost the entirety of Eastern and Midwestern ...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on NASA satellite image reveals record low snow for the United StatesUnless Additional Funds Raised, Ecological Internet Closes at End of Summer
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on June 1st, 2010
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Posted in Uncategorized Comments Off on Unless Additional Funds Raised, Ecological Internet Closes at End of SummerClimate change to hurt Egypt farming, tourism
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 1st, 2010
Reuters: Egypt's farming and tourism sectors could be hurt as climate change takes its toll on the country, fuelling food security concerns in what is already the world's largest wheat importer, an environment official said. Climate change in Egypt threatens to cut key agricultural crops, force millions to migrate, flood or alter tourism destinations, and dramatically cut water supplies, head of the climate change unit of the environmental affairs agency said. "We are looking at an ...
North-South Conservation Divide: “Show Me the Money”
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 1st, 2010
Inter Press Service: Developing countries rich in plants and animals but poor in financial and technical resources refused to make binding commitments to halt the unraveling of the planet's biological infrastructure at the close of a major meeting Friday at the U.N.'s African headquarters in Nairobi. For their part, rich countries balked at a 50-fold increase in funding to support efforts to slow and reverse the loss of species and ecosystems. "Anything to do with finance has been a big problem ...
Diversity the Best Option for Cuban Farmers
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 1st, 2010
Inter Press Service: Cuban biodiversity scientist Humberto Ríos, one of the six recipients of the 2010 Goldman Environmental Prize, probably won't be able to collect the 150,000 dollars in prize money, though that setback is unlikely to cause him to lose any sleep -- or keep him from singing. "I'm preparing my second album, with my children," he told IPS in this interview. In his April trip to the United States to receive the award, widely known as the "Green Nobel", Ríos visited the White House and the ...