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Thursday, May 8, 2008

Biodiversity: It's In The Water
ScienceDaily (May 8, 2008) — What if hydrology is more important for predicting biodiversity than biology? New research challenges current thinking about biodiversity and opens up new avenues for predicting how climate change or human activity may affect biodiversity patterns. Researchers have in... Continued...

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Water and Space: Perchlorate, a major ingredient in rocket fuel found in the water supply
Of all the things to worry about in a glass of tap water -- rust from old pipes, giardia and that strange, recurring mossy taste -- perhaps the last thing that comes to mind is the possibility of rocket fuel and aircraft-engine cleanser. Yet America's commitment to flight, space exploration and inte... Continued...

Will the Food Crisis Finally Get the Attention of Presidential Candidates?
As we head into another round of presidential primaries, the specter of a growing world food crisis looms on the horizon. Fueled by rising apprehension over increasing price volatility in agricultural commodity markets, the debate continues to escalate over what are the underlying causes of rising f... Continued...

Greed behind food price rises-development bank head
BRUSSELS, - The food price crisis is caused largely by greed and speculation rather than food shortages, the head of Southern Africa's development bank said on Tuesday. Spiralling food costs -- called a "silent tsunami" by the World Food Programme -- have ignited fury and a rash of protests from... Continued...

Saturday, May 3, 2008

Play It as It Dries
Last December, I got a taste of what golfers are likely to experience, if not quite so starkly, in the years ahead. I played a course in Georgia whose fairways, due to strict drought restrictions across the northern third of the state, hadn't been watered in months. The look was a little eerie. ... Continued...

Thursday, May 1, 2008

Monsanto's Harvest of Fear
Monsanto already dominates America?s food chain with its genetically modified seeds. Now it has targeted milk production. Just as frightening as the corporation?s tactics?ruthless legal battles against small farmers?is its decades-long history of toxic contamination. No thanks: An anti-Monsanto ... Continued...

Canadians Investigate Death of Ducks at Oil-Sands Project
OTTAWA — Canadian federal and provincial government officials were conducting an investigation Wednesday into Syncrude Canada, a large oil-sands project operator, after hundreds of migrating ducks that landed in a company tailings pond died. Water used to separate and process the oil-bearing tar ... Continued...

Florida takes issue with plan to keep more water in Georgia
Florida told the federal government Wednesday it "strongly opposes" a proposal to store more water in Georgia while limiting flows into Apalachicola Bay, saying to do so would harm oysters and federally protected sturgeon and mussels. In a letter, Florida Department of Environmental Protection Se... Continued...

The Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico Watershed Nutrient Task Force approves a revised Action Plan for addressing hypoxia
Gulf Hypoxia Action Plan 2008 Approved The Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico Watershed Nutrient Task Force approved a revised Action Plan for addressing hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico following a comprehensive reassessment of the 2001 Action Plan. The 2008 Action Plan will be released and ... Continued...

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Norway: Law against Private ownership of drinking water
On 3rd April, the Norwegian Parliament passed a law to ensure that water and sanitation infrastructure be publicly owned for the indefinite future. The French water company, Veolia, is clearly disappointed, and will not be able to invest in Norway as they have planned. Fagforbundet, PSIs affi... Continued...

Water victory for SA township
The South African High Court has ruled that it is illegal to forcibly install prepaid water meters. The decision comes after township residents took Johannesburg's water authority to court for forcing them to buy water. Lawyers for the residents of Phiri in Soweto said the metres infringed the... Continued...

Monday, April 28, 2008

Protected Land Goes Back to Work as Crop Prices Soar
Since the mid-1980s, the U.S. government, trying to reduce the environmental fallout from large-scale farming, has been paying farmers to set aside substandard land for conservation. The results have been overwhelmingly positive: Soil erosion has been reduced, chemical and fertilizer runoff has ease... Continued...

The global food system feeds gluttonous corporations first
The only surprising thing about the global food crisis to Jim Goodman is the notion that anyone finds it surprising. "So," says the Wisconsin dairy farmer, "they finally figured out, after all these years of pushing globalization and genetically modified seeds, that instead of feeding the world ... Continued...

Rise of Nationalism Frays Global Ties
The world isn't as flat as it used to be. During the long march toward globalization, international borders and trade barriers came down. Communism fell. Protectionist walls in Latin America and elsewhere were dismantled. Governments -- long prone to meddling in trade -- took a back seat to broad... Continued...

Draining the basin that's Mexico City: A $1.3-billion government effort aims to clear the problems
The metropolis, situated in a giant natural bowl, suffers flooding and backup with every rainy season. A $1.3-billion government effort aims to clear the problems. MEXICO CITY -- The enormous expanse of concrete and asphalt known as Mexico City was once a lake. And each year, starting about this ... Continued...

Making a killing from the food crisis
A new report by GRAIN - The world food crisis is hurting a lot of people, but global agribusiness firms, traders and speculators are raking in huge profits. Much of the news coverage of the world food crisis has focussed on riots in low-income countries, where workers and others cannot cope w... Continued...

Sunday, April 27, 2008

Canada, don't take fresh water for granted
Special Update Water is something Canadians and Americans take very much for granted, particularly people in the vicinity of the Great Lakes, where water's abundance has long been the foundation of agriculture, industry, trade and economic development. Around the world, water matters powerfully, ... Continued...

India on brink of water crisis, says climate panel
NEW DELHI: The per capita water availability in India is projected to decline to about 1,140 cubic metres per year in 2050 from 1,820 cubic metres per year recorded in 2001, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has stated in a report released recently. While the figures are not n... Continued...

Saturday, April 26, 2008

Biofuels In China: Ethanol Market Expected To Double
The Chinese government views biofuels as a key component of an overall strategy for a stable and secure economy. Increased biofuel production is also seen as a means of mitigating poverty conditions in rural areas, where per capita income is about one-third of that in urban centers. For all those re... Continued...

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Town in the Andes face crisis as glaciers melt
El Alto, Bolivia - An abandoned alpine lodge is all that remains of Bolivia's renowned Chacaltaya ski resort, the world's highest at 17,388 feet above sea level. Today, the expansive 150-foot thick glacier, which once attracted thousands of tourists, has been reduced to a lone patch of ice about 9-f... Continued...