The flow of water in the world’s largest rivers has declined over the past half-century, with significant changes found in about a third of the big rivers.
An analysis of 925 major rivers from 1948 to 2004 showed an overall decline in total discharge. The reduction in inflow to the Pacific Ocean alone was about equal [...]
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HeraldNet: Flow of many rivers in decline, study finds
Posted in climate change, water facts on April 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Schwarzenegger Joins Marchers At Water Rally – cbs5.com
Posted in environmental policy, water conservation on April 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger urged on thousands of demonstrators Friday on the final leg of a four-day march across California’s agricultural basin designed to draw attention to surging unemployment caused by water shortages in the state’s rural middle.
Framed by a half-empty reservoir perched above miles of dry cropland, the governor told farmers and farmworkers that [...]
OhGizmo! » SmartFaucet Is Too Smart For A Faucet
Posted in tap water on April 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The SmartFaucet from iHouse has adjustable flow, an internal heating coil to provide hot water faster, and LEDs that change color based on temperature. That’s all very nice. But it also has a little camera with face recognition software that will automatically adjust the water to the exact temperature and pressure that you like. And, [...]
Findings – Use Energy, Get Rich and Save the Planet – NYTimes.com
Posted in climate change, energy efficiency, environmental policy on April 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As incomes go up, people often focus first on cleaning up their drinking water, and then later on air pollutants like sulfur dioxide.
As their wealth grows, people consume more energy, but they move to more efficient and cleaner sources — from wood to coal and oil, and then to natural gas and nuclear power, progressively [...]
Extreme Ice Survey – extremeicesurvey.org
Posted in climate change, oceans on April 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Extreme Ice Survey is the most wide-ranging glacier study ever conducted using ground-based, real-time photography. EIS uses time-lapse photography, conventional photography, and video to document the rapid changes now occuring on the Earth’s glacial ice. The EIS team has installed 27 time-lapse cameras at 15 sites in Greenland, Iceland, Alaska, and the Rocky Mountains. [...]
A Clear, Clean Water Act – Editorial, NY Times
Posted in environmental policy, pollution on April 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Clean water policy is in a terrible muddle, and the country has the Supreme Court to thank for it.
The 1972 Clean Water Act was written to protect all the waters and wetlands of the United States. Two unfortunate Supreme Court decisions narrowed its scope, weakened its safeguards and thoroughly confused the federal agencies responsible for [...]
By Degrees – Third-World Stove Soot Is Target in Climate Fight – NYTimes.com
Posted in climate change, energy efficiency, environmental policy, pollution, third world assistance, water heating on April 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Like tiny heat-absorbing black sweaters, soot particles warm the air and melt the ice by absorbing the sun’s heat when they settle on glaciers. One recent study estimated that black carbon might account for as much as half of Arctic warming. While the particles tend to settle over time and do not have the global [...]
Inventor turns cardboard boxes into eco-friendly oven – CNN.com
Posted in energy efficiency, third world assistance, water heating on April 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When Jon Bohmer sat down with his two little girls for a simple project they could work on together, he didnt realize theyd hit upon a solution to one of the worlds biggest problems for just $5: A solar-powered oven.
The ingeniously simple design uses two cardboard boxes, one inside the other, and an acrylic cover [...]
Rainforests may pump winds worldwide – New Scientist
Posted in climate change, oceans, water facts on April 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
THE acres upon acres of lush tropical forest in the Amazon and tropical Africa are often referred to as the planets lungs. But what if they are also its heart? This is exactly what a couple of meteorologists claim in a controversial new theory that questions our fundamental understanding of what drives the weather. They [...]
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