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 Water BloggedAuthor: Peter Young
When I was growing up water was one of those things in life which I always took for granted. Read More... Author: BBC
Some scientists say an increase in the rate of melting of the world's glaciers is evidence of global warming. Read More... Author: University of Washington
The impact of global warming has become obvious in high latitude regions, including Alaska, Siberia and the Arctic, where melting ice and softening tundra are causing profound changes. But, contrary to popular belief, the most serious impact in the next century likely will be in the tropics, says a group of researchers headed by a University of Washington ecologist. Read More... Author: Science Blog
The Antarctic Peninsula is undergoing greater warming than almost anywhere on Earth, a condition perhaps associated with human-induced greenhouse effects. According to the cover article published in the August 4 issue of the journal Nature, the spectacular collapse of the Antarctica's Larson B Ice Shelf, an area roughly the size of Rhode Island, is unprecedented during the past 10,000 years. Read More... Author: Peter Young
There is a line, an invisible divider, that cuts through the heart of the Calumet region. On one side sits the area's greatest natural asset, which provides almost unlimited access to about 90 percent of the country's fresh surface water supply. On the other side, in some spots in view of Lake Michigan, are those who can't touch the region's "blue gold." Read More... Author: Visible Earth
Although it is now the largest desert on Earth, during the last ice age the Sahara was a savannah with a climate similar to that of present-day Kenya and Tanzania. The annual rainfall was much greater than it is now, creating many rivers and lakes that are now hidden under shifting sands or exposed as barren salt flats. Over several hundred thousand years the rains also filled a series of vast underground aquifers. Modern African nations are now mining this fossil water to support irrigated farming projects. Read More... Author: Earth Observatory
In July 2003, the Kazakhstan government, with funding from the World Bank, began a massive restoration project for the Aral Sea. Once the fourth largest lake on Earth, the Aral Sea has shrunk dramatically over the past few decades as the primary rivers that fed the Sea have been diverted and tapped nearly dry for cotton farming and other agriculture. Read More... Author: David Dancu
Before the floods of Noah, before epidemics, before disease and before a shortened life span, there was pure, energized water. Read More... |
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