Archive for the ‘Water’ Category
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Don’t Go Near the Water — Johnny Cash
20 Apr 2011Don’t know how I missed this back when the old man was with us and singing it. Amy Goodman played…
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Water, Cool Clear Water
29 Apr 2010FORGET expensive machinery, the best way to purify water could be hiding in a cactus. It turns out that an…
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Water Windmill
04 Aug 2008An eccentric inventor in the parched plains of Australia has come up with this idea for a water windmill. Based…
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A Precipitous Rise in Extreme Rainfall
21 Jul 2008Global warming has been expected to bring not only droughts, but also floods, because what rain you get comes hammering…
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36,000 Homeless in Iowa
15 Jun 2008“About 36,000 Iowans in 11 counties are homeless, Gov. Chet Culver said Sunday. In Cedar Rapids, 25,000 people were forced…
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Glaciers, Water, The Andes
24 Apr 2008I don’t care if it’s called Global Warming, Global Weirding, Climate Change or Xifurteling, something big is happening. Life is…
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Glaciers and Harvests
20 Mar 2008Lester Brown writes: The world is now facing a climate-driven shrinkage of river-based irrigation water supplies. Mountain glaciers in the…
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Storms and Climate Change
19 Feb 2008From Jeff Masters at his wunderground.com blog “Are storms getting more extreme due to climate change? That is a difficult…
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Nukes and Water
23 Jan 2008“Nuclear reactors across the Southeast could be forced to throttle back or temporarily shut down later this year because drought…
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Water
16 Dec 2007From East and West of the US come these ominous water stories. In Florida: South Florida’s Strictest Water Rationing Ever…
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Desalinization in Marin?
09 Nov 2007As rising temperatures and shifting rainfalls continue to exacerbate water problems for growing populations, desalinization of sea water, long a…
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Water: H2O=Life
05 Nov 2007The American Museum of Natural History in New York has a fabulous new exhibition. Water: H2O=Life Read Edward Rothstein in…
