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Donghao Chung, Guangzhou’s Daylighted Water Refuge

November 10, 2015

A new urban park constructed from a polluted sewer is a message…

The Stream, August 30: More Crop Per Drop

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August 30, 2012

A theme of food and water waste reduction, especially in agriculture,…

Rains Bring Black Water in Wake of Colorado Fire

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July 10, 2012

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.

Exxon and Imperial Oil Forced To Go Around Sensitive Idaho River Valley

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May 23, 2012

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

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.

Where Food Grows on Water: Environmental and Human Threats to Wisconsin’s Wild Rice

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August 4, 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.

Egypt’s Assets in Ethiopia May Help Ease Tensions Over Nile River

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October 14, 2010

The African country reaches out to its Nile Basin neighbor.

Heavy Rainfall Hampers Tea Markets in India and Sri Lanka

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June 7, 2010

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

Where Energy Development Puts Rivers at Risk

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June 7, 2010

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

Buried for Decades, Urban Waterways Are Natural Cure for Concrete World

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July 22, 2009

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.