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9/9/2010
In a move apparently taken straight from David Cameron's vision for more open government, Defra has today launched an online survey calling on the public to help shape its up-coming overhaul of the UK's water policy.
The department, ...
8/9/2010
A primary topic of discussion at a weeklong international water conference here can best be summed up in two words: "dirty water".
Ironically, the venue for the vibrant debate - focusing mostly on pollutants, industrial waste and human ...
7/9/2010
This post is part of a special National Geographic news series on global water issues.
The key to averting a global food crisis may simply be a matter of storing more water, according to a new report released yesterday at World Water ...
23/8/2010
The wildfires that choked Moscow over the past two months were fueled primarily by peat bogs that were drained to make way for farms and houses. Peatlands around the world could accelerate climate change by unleashing more carbon dioxide than any ...
21/8/2010
It is simply incredulous that as leaders and policymakers of the free world that our United States Senate could not come to a general understanding of the seriousness of the issues related to climate change. How many Alaska coastal villages most ...
5/8/2010
As I write in Thursday`s issue of The Times, the Dead Sea and its depleted waters have become a rare symbol of regional cooperation among the people that share its shores, which stretch across Israel, Jordan and the Israeli-occupied West Bank. ...
21/7/2010
"There are hardly any tourists now, and nearly all the hotels are empty," says Rosa Rosales, who works at the Hotel Pa Muelle, on the shores of Guatemala's Lake Atitlán, a natural treasure that has been overcome by pollution.
"The view ...
13/7/2010
A project hoping to reverse desertification through 'holistic management' of livestock has been awarded US$100,000 prize in a global competition on sustainable practices.
By carefully planning the grazing of the cattle on fields, ...
12/7/2010
MOMBASA IS used to being on the defensive.
Fought over by the Arabs and Portuguese, and eventually the British, the island city`s sun-bleached Fort Jesus has witnessed a battle or two since it was built on the orders of King Philip of ...
8/7/2010
The next generation of water experts met this week in Australia to tackle the threat of war and climate change on the world’s supplies.
Representatives from 25 countries gathered at the International Young Water Professionals conference ...
7/7/2010
The European parliament made a historical move today when it voted overwhelmingly to ban illegal timber from its markets. For activists worldwide the ban on illegal timber in the EU is a reason to celebrate, but for one activist, Faith Doherty of ...
6/7/2010
MANGROVES are continuously under threat from overharvesting, degradation and land reclamation.
Yet we continue to cut them down unaware at times of the role these trees are playing within the coastal ecosystem.
Fiji and other ...
21/6/2010
FROM SULFURIC TO NITRIC: Sulfuric acid rain has been responsible for dissolving some limestone and marble statues, but more importantly, be it sulfuric or nitric acid rain, it can kill fish and other living things.
The acid rain scourge ...
20/6/2010
Take your well-disciplined strengths
and stretch them between two opposing poles.
Because inside human beings
is where God learns.
—Rainer Maria Rilke
There is a battle going on for the soul of ...
16/6/2010
Science and
environment reporter, BBC News The calculator produces a personalised report for households
A website that helps people to work out how much CO2 is being emitted to heat water in their homes has gone online.
Produced ...
13/6/2010
Countries bordering the Danube want to increase shipping on the second longest river on the European continent without abusing an ecosystem unique in the world.
"Today, shipping goods on the Danube is very limited when the potential is ...
5/6/2010
Rwanda has successfully banned plastic bags but the tiny central African country, which Saturday led celebrations to mark World
Environment Day events, faces several other green challenges.
Rwanda is justifiably proud of having succeeded ...
1/6/2010
Andy Lintner on Beowulfe.com is doing his part for the Deepwater disaster with a map mashup that compares the size of the slick to anywhere in the world. Transposed to the UK, the results are horrifying.
Lintner created the map using ...
29/5/2010
A new desalination facility has come up here on Israel's Mediterranean seashore, to soothe Israel's chronic fresh water shortage. An elaborate network of pipes beneath the beach reaches westward far into the sea. Eastward, it links up with the ...
22/5/2010
While one report warns the oilsands are on a collision course with climate change regulations, another says major strides have been made in reducing
environmental impacts.
In its report, Canada's Oil Sands: Shrinking Window of ...
21/5/2010
Anger, skepticism and accusations of lying washed over energy giant BP Plc on Friday as it desperately pursued efforts to contain a month-old seabed well leak billowing crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
U.S. lawmakers and scientists ...
20/5/2010
Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana said Wednesday that sheets of heavy crude oil from the offshore spill had seeped deep into the delicate marshes around the mouth of the Mississippi River. He called on the federal government to approve a plan to ...
11/5/2010
As the clean-up of the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico continues, the US may finally begin to rethink its position on off-shoring drilling. As usual, change is frustratingly slow, and almost imperceptible:
environmental groups like the ...
10/5/2010
Black Hawk helicopters peppered Louisiana's barrier islands with 1-ton sacks of sand Monday to bolster the state's crucial wetlands against an epic oil spill, 4 million gallons and growing, in the Gulf of Mexico.
At the site of the ...
26/4/2010
Simple water conservation rather than a multi-billion pound pipeline project would be the best way to save the Dead Sea from disappearing, say
environmentalists
The future of the Dead Sea in the Middle East is in grave danger. Its water ...