River

A theme of food and water waste reduction, especially in agriculture, characterizes a large number of speeches and events as World Water Week in Stockholm continues, according to Environmental News Service. Hurricane Isaac is not on track to hydrate drought-stricken areas in the Midwest, contrary to many farmers’ hopes. Instead, it may saturate and ruin [...]

Help share our stories: submit to reddit
 
 
 
brett

Though the High Park fire is 100 percent contained, its effects are just beginning. Circle of Blue reporter Brett Walton speaks with the experts and the water enthusiasts in the aftermath.

Help share our stories: submit to reddit
 
 
Read more ...
 
KSchneider_Idaho_IMG_2233

Push-back on the transportation of tar sands equipment through a wilderness corridor reflects civic resistance to North American fossil fuel boom.

Help share our stories: submit to reddit
 
 
Read more ...
 
Wild rice on the Bad River Reservation in northern Wisconsin is in the floating leaf stage by early June, with a single shoot lying on the water’s surface. This is considered one of the most critical—and and dangerous—stages in the rice’s life cycle. The plants are just beginning to change physiologically from exchanging gases with the water column to exchanging gases with the air. Therefore, they are very susceptible to heavy rains and flooding events that can either rip out the young plants by the roots, or drown them. June 6, 2011.

For generations, the upper Great Lakes region has boasted harvests of wild rice, growing in Lake Superior and other watersheds within the basin. But disease, dams, and climate change are now endangering the uncultivated bounty.

Help share our stories: submit to reddit
 
 
Read more ...
 

The African country reaches out to its Nile Basin neighbor.

Help share our stories: submit to reddit
 
 
Read more ...
 

Severe weather impacts could compromise tea farming for two of the world’s biggest players in the industry.

Help share our stories: submit to reddit
 
 
Read more ...
 

American Rivers’ annual tally of threatened rivers highlights effects of drilling for natural gas.

Help share our stories: submit to reddit
 
 
Read more ...
 

cheonggyecheon2
Among the losers of the great twentieth century urbanization were the rivers and streams in cities around the world, soon to be sharing their space with millions of new people.

Help share our stories: submit to reddit
 
 
Read more ...
 

More than 40 years ago, Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez founded in prose the fictional village of Macondo along the shores of a river of clear water

Help share our stories: submit to reddit
 
 
Read more ...
 

The air in Ethiopia may catch fire, as plans for a new hydroelectric dam on the Omo River spark tensions in a region with long-lasting conflicts over scarce water.

Help share our stories: submit to reddit
 
 
Read more ...
 

BAINBRIDGE, Georgia – U.S. Rep. Allen Boyd (D-Fla) and Florida Sens. Bill Nelson and Mel Martinez are seeking a National Academy of Sciences study of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin to help resolve the nearly three-decade battle between Florida, Alabama and Georgia over how the rivers and reservoirs are used and managed.

Help share our stories: submit to reddit
 
 
Read more ...
 

SACRAMENTO — The Chinook salmon that swim upstream in the Sacramento River to spawn in the fall have disappeared. The almost complete collapse of the richest and most dependable source of Chinook salmon south of Alaska has left fisheries experts struggling for reliable explanations — and coming up dry. Read more here. source: The New [...]

Help share our stories: submit to reddit