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U.S. study says rising temperatures put Western water supplies at risk
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 26th, 2011
Sacramento Bee: Joe Senos of Citrus Heights fishes for trout last month on the American River east of Sunrise Boulevard in Fair Oaks. A federal report released Monday says rising temperatures could put water supplies at risk in California and elsewhere in the West.
U.S. study says rising temperatures put Western water supplies at risk
Global warming in California's Central Valley could increase flooding, shrink salmon habitat and invite more invasive species, scientists conclude in a sobering report released...
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“Brazil Doesn’t Need Poisons to Maintain Food Production”
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 26th, 2011
Inter Press Service: Brazil could give up its dubious rank as the world’s number one consumer of agrochemicals without decreasing the amount of food it produces for its own people, according to João Pedro Stédile, leader of the Landless Workers Movement (MST).
On lands settled by small farmers as part of the agrarian reform process, a change of mentality is already underway towards food production in harmony with the environment, Stédile told Tierramérica.
For the last three consecutive years, Brazil, an agricultural...
Climate change to hit American West water supply
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 26th, 2011
Environmental News Network: Climate change could cut water flow in some of the American West's biggest river basins -- including the Rio Grande and the Colorado -- by up to 20 percent this century, the Interior Department reported on Monday. This steep drop in stream flow is projected for parts of the West that have seen marked increases in population and droughts over recent decades, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said in a telephone briefing.
"These changes will directly affect the West's water supplies, which are already...
China’s water supply at risk
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 26th, 2011
United Press International: Climate change is threatening China's water supply, a government official said.
"China faces an imbalance between the supply and demand of water to support its rapid social and economic development, while protecting the natural environment and ecosystems," Minister of Water Resources Chen Lei told a roundtable meeting on climate change in China, the country's English newspaper, China Daily, reports.
Global climate change could further exacerbate existing problems over water security, water...
Climate change could hit Western US water supply
Posted by TG Daily: Kate Taylor on April 26th, 2011
TG Daily: Climate change is likely to cut water flow in many of the American West's rivers by as much as a fifth, a report from the Interior Department warns. The affected rivers supply water to eight US states.
The report to Congress by the Department's Bureau of Reclamation examines future water supplies across eight major river basins, including the Colorado, Rio Grande and Missouri.
"Water is the lifeblood of our communities, rural and urban economies, and our environment, and small changes in water...
Washington Square Park Benches May Deplete Rainforest
Posted by Epoch Times: Tara MacIsaac on April 26th, 2011
Epoch Times: Since the 1960s, much of the wood used for the city's park benches, boardwalks, and piers has come from the Amazon rainforest. A tropical hardwood called ipe is particularly popular for its outdoor durability. To access the ipe trees scattered throughout the rainforest, however, foresters must raze large tracts of land.
"Logging of tropical forests to supply timber and pulpwood has contributed to deforestation at a rate of 0.2 percent a year. ... This deforestation accounts for approximately 20...
Climate change to hit US rivers
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 26th, 2011
BBC: The Colorado River, which runs through the Hoover Dam, is expected to see a reduction in stream flow Scarce water supplies in the western US will probably dwindle further as a result of climate change, causing problems for millions in the region, a government report has said.
Climate change could cut water flow in several of the American West's largest river basins by up to 20% this century, the interior department report said.
Those rivers provide water to eight US states, from Texas to California....