Posts Tagged ‘drinking water’
Landslides: How rainfall dried up Panama’s drinking water
Published: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 - 11:33 in Earth & Climate Related images(click to enlarge) Marcos Guerra, STRI Robert Stallard To understand the long-term effects of a prolonged tropical storm in the Panama Canal watershed, Robert Stallar...
The Reality of Climate Change: Vast Mongolian Shantytown Now Home to Quarter of Country’s Population
More than 700,000 people, many of them ex-herders and their families, now crowd the gers sprawling north of Ulan BatorIt is a supreme irony in a country once known as the land without fences. Stretching north from the capital, Ulan Bator, an endless su...
Methane levels 17 times higher in water wells near hydrofracking sites
Published: Monday, May 9, 2011 - 14:33 in Earth & Climate A study by Duke University researchers has found high levels of leaked methane in well water collected near shale-gas drilling and hydrofracking sites. The scientists collected and analyze...
The End Of Disposing Fracking Waste Into Rivers?
-- Pennsylvania's top environmental regulator says he is confident that the natural gas industry is just weeks away from ending one of its more...
California farmers, ecologists square off over drinking water pollution
Should farmers in the Central Valley, California's richest agricultural region, be required to monitor and clean up groundwater pollution from their operations? The issue will be taken up by the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board at a three-day...
Ellen Cantarow: Energy Is Ugly: Tar Sands Make Their Mark
When it comes to energy ugly, tar sands could take the cake. Getting oil out of them is a dirty, dangerous, and deadly process.
Experts: No Major Impact On Sea Life From Japan’s Radiation Leak
NEW YORK -- Releases of radioactive water into the ocean near Japan's stricken nuclear complex shouldn't pose a widespread danger to sea animals or people...
World Water Day: A global inundation of funds is not enough | Sophie Trémolet
One billion people lack basic water supplies and 2.6 billion lack access to sanitation. But we must invest wisely and locallyTuesday is World Water Day, an occasion to celebrate water and its crucial contribution to human life in all its forms. To mark...
Gas drilling near Yellowstone: danger of another blowout?
Last year's Deepwater Horizon disaster focused international attention on offshore well blowouts. But they happen more often onshore, with dangerous effect: release of flammable and toxic gases, spills of oil and drilling fluid, and plumes of groundwater pollution. In 2006,...
Peter Neill: Hydrofracking, Water, Watersheds, and the Ocean
The presence of toxic chemical elements in the wastewater used in hydrofracking is yet another unexpected consequence of the desperate pursuit of fossil fuels on our public health.
What the frack? US natural gas drilling method contaminates water
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, uses pressure blasts to release natural gas but leaves highly-toxic waste waterA controversial new method of natural-gas drilling, embraced rapidly across the US, has contaminated water supplies with radioactive waste...
A nano-solution to global water problem
New nanomaterials research from the Univ. at Buffalo could lead to new solutions for an age-old public health problem: how to separate bacteria from drinking water.
50 Million Environmental Refugees By 2020, Experts Predict
This past week, at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), experts warned that, "In 2020, the UN has...
Pure water from solar power; will it catch on?
Solar-powered water purification systems sold to Algeria, Malaysia: will they catch on?
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