How our miraculous transportation system turns water into brine
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
Salting roads in winter makes them safer to drive on. But all that salt has to go somewhere and it's starting to be a problem.
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
Salting roads in winter makes them safer to drive on. But all that salt has to go somewhere and it's starting to be a problem.
By Robin Broad, John Cavanagh, Foreign Policy In Focus
The irony that Texas, the state built on fossil fuels, was completely unprepared for extreme weather disasters shouldn’t be lost on anyone.
By Megan Ewald, NOAA Office of Response and Restoration
Oil spills, hazardous waste, and ship groundings hex America’s oceans and rivers every year. Pollution drives people away from beaches, leaving them silent as a boneyard. NOAA looks for ways to bring waterways back to life. To do this, NOAA and our partners often look for opportunities to remove or bypass barriers for fish passage such as dams, faulty culverts, or grates. This is the sordid tale of six dammed rivers, where pollution settlements provided the opportunity for waters across America to rise from the grave.
By Jenny Kamin, Grist
Water activist Steve Tamar expected just a dozen students to show up to his citizen-science training at Maricao High School in western Puerto Rico this past October. Instead, the sweltering hot auditorium was packed with teenagers looking to help test the island’s water.
By Shiney Varghese, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Then the question is: who is interested in the repeal of laws that protect our environment? Who wants corporations to continue their pollution? Certainly not local communities who use the local waters.
By Gene Logsdon, The Contrary Farmer
I have a hunch that Des Moines will win and farmers are going to have to help cities pay for cleaner water. Maybe that’s fair. And if farm size keeps going up, who is going to protest if a 50,000 acre executive farmer has to pay.