rivers
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Dam it all: More than half of the world’s long rivers are blocked by infrastucture
It hasn’t even been a week since the U.N. released a depressing report on biodiversity, and now, a new study in Nature shows that 63 percent of the world’s longest (at least 620 miles) rivers are impeded by human-built infrastructures such as dams and reservoirs. Dam(n). Rivers are a key source of food and water […]
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President Trump, these are the real reasons California is on fire
Letting rivers run their natural course is not what causes massive wildfires. Year after year of hot and dry weather causes wildfires.
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Damaged river ecosystems could use a whole lot more dead fish
To make good habitat for live salmon, you have to have a lot of dead ones first.
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Ted Cruz is blaming California’s water woes on a fish
At a GOP convention, Cruz mused on the inconvenience of rivers needing to have water in them.
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Ocean acidification: Not just for oceans anymore!
Rivers are acidifying, too, and baby salmon are struggling.
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Would you rather swim in a river of ammonium or MDMA?
Fracking sites in Pennsylvania or rave rivers in Taiwan -- the choice is yours, river-dweller!
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These weird spinning ice disks are the new crop circles
Check out this strange international phenomenon.
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Coming soon: Street View-style maps of the country’s endangered rivers
Internet time-wasters, start your engines. A nonprofit called Below the Surface is gearing up to map 27 of the country's most endangered rivers using the same technology that gave the world Google Street View. That means 360-degree shots of beautiful, polluted, shrinking, over-tapped waterways for the world to click on (and, hopefully, get fired up […]
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Critical List: Republicans say enviros threaten border safety; Climate change will kill the Nile
Republicans aren't against environmental protections just because those laws "kill jobs." Supposedly they also damage national security. Canada sticks its fingers in its ears, sticks out its tongue, and tells the U.S. it'll just sell its tar sands oil to China. Forget Solyndra: California-based NRG Energy is a much more typical — and much more […]
