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Urban water future: Changing climate means changing water
Posted by Standard: None Given on March 30th, 2015
Standard: Editor's note: This is the final in a three-part series exploring the vital issue of Utah's urban water supplies. The first story delved into aging infrastructure and the second story addressed conservation efforts.
The T.W. Daniel Experimental Forest, located about an hour up Logan Canyon from Utah State University, is full of all kinds of shiny metal objects.
The metal feathers of rain gauge windscreens rattle with the breeze. Mylar insulation wraps trees, which helps measure sap flux and...
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Comments Off on Urban water future: Changing climate means changing waterChina: Minister in clean-up call over green errors
Posted by Standard: None Given on March 1st, 2011
Standard: China faces acute environmental and resource strains that threaten to choke growth unless the world's second-biggest economy cleans up, the environment minister said in an unusually blunt warning.
In an essay published yesterday, Zhou Shengxian also spoke of making assessment of projected greenhouse gas emissions a part of evaluating proposed development projects.
That could give the Environmental Protection Ministry more sway on climate change issues, an area dominated by agencies whose main...