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20/8/2008
Limited availability of fresh water is often overlooked as a cause of food scarcity and environmental decline, according to Colin Chartres. Governments should be ramping up efforts to make sure we have enough to grow crops as well as enough to ...
20/8/2008
Australia scientists estimate that only one percent of the nation's untapped geothermal energy could produce 26,000 years worth of clean electricity.
The Australian government announced on Wednesday a A$50 million (US$43 million) project ...
20/8/2008
Google is investing $10 million to produce electricity from underground heat with a breakthrough technology, as the Web search leader extends its clout to clean up the environment.
The move is part of Google's effort to pump hundreds of ...
20/8/2008
The difficulty with droughts is that they can turn to floods overnight. The difficulty with rain, or acute lack of it, when tied into the prophesies of global warming, is that the short-term can turn from arid to soggy in a trice. Which is part, ...
20/8/2008
The already parched U.S. Southwest is drying up even more, at least in early spring, because of climate change. A new study in Geophysical Research Letters shows that since 1978, the jet stream that brings rainstorms from the Pacific over the ...
20/8/2008
The Federal Government will provide $50 million to the geothermal industry to help it begin making the technology viable for baseload energy production.
Speaking to Alexandra Kirk on ABC Radio's AM program, the Minister for Resources and ...
20/8/2008
"Most of the world's transboundary river basins lack adequate legal protection" - James Leape Governments are failing to enforce the UN Watercourses Convention more than a decade after scores of national governments voted for it to be brought ...
19/8/2008
The late-winter/early-spring storm activity in the western US has shifted north since the late 1970s. This graphic shows how the peak winter storm tracks have shifted poleward since 1978. The...
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19/8/2008
Dips in the sun's activity have triggered centuries-long droughts in eastern North America, according to a new study that examined the geologic record stored within a stalagmite from a West Virginia cave.
The link between periodic ...
19/8/2008
Countries need to act quickly to resolve a "growing water crisis", it has been warned.
But the British government has sought to dampen down concerns that "water wars" are a growing threat to global ...
19/8/2008
Dips in the sun's activity have triggered centuries-long droughts in eastern North America, according to a new study that examined the geologic record stored within a stalagmite from a West Virginia cave.
The link between periodic ...
19/8/2008
John McCain proved to be a uniter not a divider with his suggestion that the 1922 Colorado River com- pact be renegotiated to allocate more water to his home state of Arizona as well as Nevada and California.
McCain's comments in an ...
19/8/2008
Luc Gnacadja, who took over as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) last October, is a man with a mission -- a mission that goes beyond explaining that his job is not to battle ...
19/8/2008
Ukraine has scrapped a plan to extend a shipping canal which would have threatened wildlife in the ecologically sensitive Danube Delta, the Romanian foreign ministry said on Monday.
While a spokesman for the Ukrainian government ...
19/8/2008
Ireland faced further flooding on Monday after a second successive weekend of torrential summer rain drove people from their homes, blocked road and rail links and threatened to destroy farmers' crops. The weather station at Dublin Airport has ...
19/8/2008
Toxic chemicals from thousands of idols of Hindu gods immersed in rivers and lakes across India are causing pollution which is killing fish and contaminating food crops, experts and environmentalists said on Monday.
Hindus across India ...
18/8/2008
Water woes spiraled to such depths this year that the top regional environment minister here—a confirmed agnostic—confessed to climbing the stony shrine of the Virgin of Montserrat for a bit of solace.
Winter rains refused to fall, ...
18/8/2008
WWF Director General James Leape will tomorrow, in the opening session of World Water Week in Stockholm, tell that the world water crisis is a key factor behind current global anxieties over faltering food supplies and rising food ...
18/8/2008
Cities in developing countries around the world are using untreated or partially treated wastewater for agriculture, posing serious health risks to urban consumers, a study released on Monday said.
"Irrigating with wastewater isn't a ...
18/8/2008
The future may not smell too rosy – it may lie in sewage. As cities and industries suck up ever more of the world’s scarce water resources, agriculture is destined to rely increasingly on recycling the contents of urban sewers, according to a new ...
18/8/2008
More than 2000 experts have gathered in the Swedish capital Stockholm to discuss how to ensure that the world has adequate supplies of water in the future.
The conference coincides with World Water Week and will look at issues like ...
18/8/2008
Australian and U.S. scientists said they have copied a process found in plants that uses sunlight to make hydrogen from water, potentially a cleaner and lower-cost method of making the gas for use in fuel cells.
By replicating aspects of ...
17/8/2008
As the world races to find solutions to the planet's climate woes, some 2,500 experts meet in Stockholm this week to put the spotlight on one of the most pressing issues, that of water resources, at World Water Week.
The theme of this ...
17/8/2008
According to a study published in the July 14, 2000, issue of Science, one-third of the world's population is water-stressed, with 8 percent classified as severely water-stressed, including the western United States and northern Mexico, South ...
17/8/2008
U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Saturday she will seek an extension of a decade-old program to preserve Lake Tahoe's cobalt blue waters, while Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne authorized another $54 million in funding for conservation ...