The latest issue of Nature promises temporary relief to a planet where fresh water is quickly becoming scarcer and scarcer (photo: cc, from freeaussiestock.com). Vincent E.A. Post of Flinders University in Adelaide and his coauthors Jacobus Groen, Henk Kooi, Mark Person, Shemin Ge, and W. Mike Edmunds report the surprising news that outer continental shelves
The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has unveiled its latest salvo in the fight to curtail human-caused global warming: an interactive âClimate Hot Map Scavenger Huntâ. The Climate Hot Map educate sand entertains as it stimulates the userâs curiosity to sift clues and scavenge for answers. Whatâs more, completing the scavenger hunt qualifies you for a chance to win the fabulous Grand Prize: an Earthwatch Institute trip for two to assess climate impacts in Rio Cachoeira national Reserve in Brazil!
New research has discovered what one researcher labelled an âaccounting errorâ in the current calculations of how much carbon is absorbed by continents. According to the new research to be published in the journal Science, the amount of greenhouse gas currently taken in by forests and other carbon sinks is less than has previously been
In a first-ever âworld-wide synthesisâ, an international team of scientists has analyzed data on 23 âdrivers of environmental stressâ that impact the health and quality of the worldâs major rivers. The findings: 65% of the worldâs riverine ecosystems are âmoderately to highly threatenedâ. The teamâs assessment is the first to âjointly consider human and biodiversity
A map prepared for Michiganâs Great Lakes Offshore Wind Council shows areas of high wind power production potential in the stateâs offshore waters. [social_buttons] One of the first proposals for a major offshore wind project in Americaâs freshwater has surprised Michigan regulators and begun to stir opposition from onshore property owners. But the company behind
[social_buttons] Legal skirmishes in Ohio and Michigan are reviving debates over whether those who own Great Lakes shoreline properties exclusively control their waterfront land or whether the public can access and travel along the coast. The same legal doctrine at issue in these battles is a central focus in current debates about n a time
[social_buttons] In the Obama Administrationâs proposed 2010 budget, itâs $475 million in new money in the first year for Great Lakes restoration. The five lakes hold about 6 quadrillion gallons of water and provide drinking water for 40 million North Americans but are afflicted with aquatic invasive species, habitat destruction, lingering and new chemicals, and
The worldâs freshwater is under attack. Privatization, pollution, damming, and drought will change the way we view our freshwater in the coming years. According to Charity Water, one in six people on the planet do not have access to safe, clean drinking water.
We do. In the Great Lakes region that includes the upper Midwest and parts of southern Canada, we have the largest fresh water system on earth. Did you want to start siphoning off our water and selling it to China? Not so fastâŚ
