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Circle of Blue design intern Laura Stegmeyer reflects on her first week.
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Circle of Blue intern Jinah Park summarizes the first three weeks of spring at the Traverse City office.
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The most beautiful country in the world, the United States, presents spectacular scenes of nature in every state, like the Cape Cod shoreline on Earth Day in Chatham, Mass.
Circle of Blue's senior editor Keith Schneider spent Earth Day on the East Coast, reflecting on the celebration's past accomplishments and future goals.
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For World Water Day 2013, Skoll World Forum and Circle of Blue asked four of the world’s leading water experts to weigh in. Here is what J. Carl Ganter, director of Circle of Blue, had to say about water's connection to 21st-century journalism.
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Choke Point: Index is the first dynamic, open-source data and journalism project to explore the linkage between water, food and energy.
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A canal fed by the Liaohe River is seen near Xinmin, Liaoning, China on Sept 26, 2012.
Pollution is a major driver of water scarcity in China, especially in the places where economic growth is the highest and water resources are under the most stress — China’s dry northern breadbaskets and its biggest manufacturing hubs in the south and east.
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Better water management is necessary for environmental and public health, as well as economic development.
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China Water Resources
Click through the interactive infographic to see how China, the world’s largest nation and second-largest economy, faces multiple challenges for sustaining its water supply.
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Coal-exporting ports are expanding along the coast of Queensland, Australia, leading to dredging and dumping operations that threaten the Great Barrier Reef. Dredged sea floor soil, the Guardian reported, can contain contaminants like heavy metals that reverse the progress made in mitigating agricultural-runoff pollutants’ harm to the Reef. Chinese Dam Construction Officials in Beijing recently [...]
 
When a Greenpeace China rapid response team ventured to a chemical spill site in the Shanxi province, they found that the area’s water supply was dwindling rapidly to support the growing coal production there, reports The New York Times. Much like the water-energy nexus story that Circle of Blue uncovered in other Northern Chinese provinces, [...]