Scientists who use the GRACE satellite say they need more resources to maximize its usefulness – for predicting floods and droughts.
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Scientists who use the GRACE satellite say they need more resources to maximize its usefulness – for predicting floods and droughts.
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Though few reported climate change adaptation projects to the EPA, utilities are preparing in other ways.
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Less money means fewer staff positions and fewer research projects at the nation’s universities.
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The study runs counter to the conventional wisdom about deforestation’s effects on the water cycle.
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Energy companies should provide better data on fracking water use, and investors should push for quantifiable water targets, according to a sustainable investing advocacy group.
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Scarce surface water supplies will lead to an active market, research firm says.
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Water security should have a common language, and it should be a priority for global sustainable development goals, according to a new report by UN-Water.
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Sometime, about one year from now, the front pages of whatever decent newspapers are left will carry a headline like the one above, announcing that for the first time in human existence (or in nearly a million years, or 3 million years, or 15 million years), the global atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide — the principal gas causing climate change — will have passed 400 parts per million.
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This week is the 200th anniversary of the birth of the man who would help settle, once and for all, the question of the cause of cholera.
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Would giving water a price help to limit its demand or would this invite abuse against what the United Nations has called a basic human right? Circle of Blue spoke with Brian Richter, of The Nature Conservancy, and Frederick Kaufman, a journalism professor and an author, about their opposing viewpoints.
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Posted on Wednesday, February 20, 2013
One of the reasons that climate change is such a big issue is because the global climate is an integral part of the Earth’s entire ecosystem, tied to so many of the big and little things that society cares about.