Water is certainly in short supply across the world from the driest continent of Australia to the richest underground fresh water supply of USA. BBC news depicts a very gloomy picture on world water crises or the near future. Some very critical locations are: – Melbourne area due to the backfire to reverse the […]
Is there Global Water Supply shortage?
Is there Global Water Supply shortage? Water is certainly in short supply across the world from the driest continent of Australia to the richest underground fresh water supply of USA. BBC news depicts a very gloomy picture on world water crises or the near future. Some very critical locations are: – Melbourne area […]
World freshwater running out as population grows
When I was in high school, I worked for a local environmental advocacy group – canvassing throughout a warren of suburban neighborhoods on the issue of polluted underground aquifers that ran below those neighborhoods. While it was the kind of door to door work usually relegated to impressionable high-energy high school kids, our tight band […]
People In Southern Illinois Are Bracing For Oil And Gas Rush
I believe the hype in Illinois is beginning to conjure up excitement in some local counties and people are bracing for change as the Illinois Legislature is considering regulations that might set off a rush among energy companies who are set to start drilling deep in the southern Illinois bedrock areas for oil and natural gas. I […]
The Giving Trees: Five Trees You’ve Never Heard of that Are Helping to End Hunger
<em>Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute’s </em><a href="http://blogs.worldwatch.org/nourishingtheplanet/"><em>Nourishing the Planet</em></a><em>.</em> We know that trees can help mitigate climate change by sequestering carbon dioxide from the earth’s atmosphere. But what is less widely understood is how many of these trees can also help to bring an end to hunger and poverty. <img class="alignleft" title="trees" src="http://blogs.worldwatch.org/nourishingtheplanet/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Marula.bmp" […]
Lu Guang Photographs China’s Dark Satanic Mills
On Oct. 14th, Chinese photographer Lu Guang won this year’s $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his photos on China’s environment. The Fund’s website posts the following paragraph describing Lu Guang’s project: Lu Guang has been documenting the ecological disasters in China resulting from the rapid growth of the economy since 2005, […]
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