A love song, a hymn of mourning: where has Australia’s beloved water gone?
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Rice
An interactive map of Circle of Blue’s coverage of “The Biggest Dry“.
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An Industrialized Nation Reckons With A 12-Year Drought In The Murray-Darling Basin
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Using chants and stories, Aboriginal elder Beryl Carmichael shares with Circle of Blue the spiritual and visceral pain of a dry and dying Darling River.
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From any eye and all angles, the Murray-Darling River Basin conjures a grand but vexing vista.
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Can a Century of Canal Digging, Channel Constructing, Man Made Plumbing Be Undone
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INDIA — The bucolic portrayal of verdant, water-soaked rice paddies may be less benign than supposed. A new study reports that well water used to flood the paddies actually contains a high level of toxic inorganic arsenic.
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AUSTRALIA –Australia’s failed rice crop — the country will export barely one-tenth of its usual average this year — has been blamed for contributing to global shortages and a more than doubling of the global rice price. But Sunrice chief executive Gary Helou says the accusation against Australia is “terribly ill-informed,” adding, “Australia is an [...]
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Posted on Monday, March 09, 2009
Australia’s Epic Drought is Global Warning Circle of Blue Reports The grievous consequences of drought and global warming are more visible and dangerous in Australia than in any other industrialized nation.