The Guardian | By: Matthew Taylor | GPE – October 14, 2017: Sewage plants are contributing to plastic pollution in the oceans with millions of tiny beads spilling into the seas around the UK, according to a new report. Originally published October 11, 2017: Dozens of UK wastewater treatment plants Read more…
Yale Environment 360 | By: Jim Robbins | October 12, 2017: In a development that has important implications for conservation, scientists are increasingly focusing not just on what species are present in an ecosystem, but on the roles that certain key species play in shaping their environment. In 1966, an Read more…
NYC – DEP | By: Various Authors | GPE – October 12, 2017: The New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) owns and operates one of the largest wastewater and stormwater collection systems in the world including a combined sewer system, which conveys stormwater and wastewater within the same Read more…
Nature Communications | By: Various Authors | October 09, 2017: Abstract: Diarrheal disease (DD) due to contaminated water is a major cause of child mortality globally. Forests and wetlands can provide ecosystem services that help maintain water quality. To understand the connections between land cover and childhood DD, we compiled Read more…
Xinhua| By: Guo Shuang | October 07, 2017: “I think the only problem we’re going to have is that I don’t know if we have enough people for all the jobs that are being created,” U.S. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Friday in an event celebrating the opening of Read more…
Xinhua| Editor: Mu Xuequan | October 08, 2017: “The role of human capital in the One Belt, One Road initiative” was the motto of the Third China-Central and Eastern Europe Conference on Cross-Cultural Dialogue, Education and Business that ended on Saturday in the Macedonian town Ohrid. Although the infrastructure is Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Cynthia Shahan | October 06, 2017: The upside of Twitter showed in an exchange between Ricardo Rossello, the governor of Puerto Rico, and real-world Tony Stark Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Governor Rossello was seemingly sending a desperate plea of help to someone who gets turned to Read more…
Xinhua| By: Zhou Xin | October 06, 2017: A latest study by Fribourg University in Switzerland revealed on Thursday that the vast majority of glaciers in center of the country will have totally disappeared by the end of the 21st century. Around 90 percent of the Hufi Glacier in the Read more…
Science News | By: Stanford University | October 05, 2017: Soil holds potential to slow global warming, researchers find. Summary: The land under our feet and the plant matter it contains could offset a significant amount of carbon emissions if managed properly. More research is needed to unlock soil’s potential Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Mahesh Bhave | October 04, 2017: Puerto Rico presents a near perfect opportunity to rebuild the electricity infrastructure from scratch in accord with technologies of the present — solar panels, batteries, wind turbines, and perhaps small generators — optimally combined in steps of 250 kW Read more…
The Nature Conservancy | GPE – October 04, 2017: In the face of intense hurricanes, nature has an important role to play in reducing flood risk for communities. Sadly, the 2017 hurricane season will long be remembered. Our thoughts and condolences go out to those who are suffering due to Read more…
IISD | SD Knowledge Hub | By: Delia Paul | GPE – October 03, 2017: The EU is supporting pastoralists’ access to water along their seasonal migration routes, through a project funded through UN Environment. Meanwhile, UNECE, GWP and the Sahara and Sahel Observatory are supporting cooperation on the sharing Read more…
Congressional Research Service | By: Jonathan L. Ramseur | GPE – October 03, 2017: The collection and treatment of wastewater remains among the most important public health interventions in human history and has contributed to a significant decrease in waterborne diseases during the past century. Nevertheless, waste discharges from municipal Read more…
FEMA | Daily Operations Briefing | October 01, 2017: Hurricane Maria – Caribbean ~ Current Situation:Life safety and life sustainment efforts in PR (Puerto Rico) and the USVI (United States Virgin Islands) are ongoing. Approximately 3 inches of rain has fallen across the theater; additional rainfall of 1-2 inches possible Read more…
American Society Of Landscape Architects | GPE – September 29, 2017: The idea that nature is also infrastructure isn’t new. But it’s now more widely understood to be true. Nature can be harnessed to provide critical services for communities, protecting them against flooding or excessive heat, or helping to improve Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Carolyn Fortuna | September 28th, 2017: Landscape architects and clean tech? Sounds like the old nature-versus-society conundrum, doesn’t it? Well, the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) says that homeowners can implement cutting-edge methods so that residential landscapes support the environment — no matter the location Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Steve Hanley | September 27, 2017: A study released by the Carbon Disclosure Project this month finds that 103 cities around the world have a serious risk of flooding. Most of the problem can be traced directly to the increased use of concrete and asphalt since Read more…
Water World | GPE – September 29, 2018: The New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), in partnership with the Water Research Foundation, today released a new report entitled Innovative and Integrated Stormwater Management. The report is an accumulation of DEP’s examination of stormwater programs from across the country Read more…
Water World | By: Matt Manges | GPE – September 28, 2017: Founded as a sugar plantation in the early 20th century and incorporated in 1959, the City of Sugar Land is the economic center of Fort Bend County in Texas. In the early 1970s, as the city expanded, a Read more…
Le Temps | By: Julie Zaugg | GPE – September 28, 2017: The port city is one of the most threatened by global warming. But it has adopted a series of innovative measures to protect itself from floods and rising waters. Hong Kong is one of the cities most exposed Read more…
Renewable Energy World | GPE – September 28, 2017: A new survey conducted by public advocacy organization Climate Council found that about 75 percent of respondents in Australia expect that household battery storage will be “the new normal” within the next decade. Originally published September 25, 2017: The survey also Read more…
World Resources Institute | By: Helen Mountford | GPE – September 28, 2017: Wrenching stories of loss and hardship after Hurricanes Harvey and Irma made vivid and upsetting viewing in recent days. The death tolls from the two hurricanes are currently estimated at 70 to 80, and early estimates suggest Read more…
World Resources Institute | By: Rachael Petersen and Lilian Pintea | September 26, 2017: Obed Kareebi, a ranger with the Uganda Wildlife Authority, marches through the dense forests of Kibale National Park in Uganda, an area with one of the highest concentrations of primates in the world. While the park Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By Kate King and Valerie Bauerlein | September 20, 2017: Harvey and Irma caused untreated sewage to be released into streets, rivers and homes of affected towns and counties. In the days after Hurricane Irma slammed Brunswick, Ga, most businesses and restaurants were shut down. Read more…
China Global Television Network (CGTN) | By: Wang Xueying | GPE – September 19, 2017: Desertification is threatening the environment and regional economies. In north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, an experiment is being carried out in the Kubuqi desert to control desertification and even turn it green. Originally published Read more…
Reuters | By: Alex Whiting | GPE – September 19, 2017: More than 1.3 billion people live on agricultural land that is deteriorating, putting them at risk of worsening hunger, water shortages and poverty, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) said. Originally published September 12, 2017: People’s use Read more…
Reuters | By: Anna Pujol-Mazzini | September 14, 2017: Asian glaciers are set to shrink by at least a third by 2100 due to climate change, researchers said on Thursday, threatening millions who depend on their meltwaters for drinking, farming and hydro-electricity. The scientists’ prediction is based on an assumption Read more…
Clean Technica | Lenz Blog | By: Dr. Karl-Friedrich Lenz | September 17th, 2017: Today I learned that the German Ruhr region needs to find a budget of around 220 million Euro a year to deal with the environmental consequences of 150 years of coal mining. Around two thirds of Read more…
Clean Technica | Nexus Media | By: Marlene Cimons | September 17th, 2017: Trees provide beauty when they bloom and shade when it’s hot. They are a symbol of the environment, hence the term “tree huggers” to describe eco-activists. They even inspire (often florid) poetry. And now, scientists have learned Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Laura Kusisto and Arian Campo-Flores | September 16, 2017: Florida owners benefit from homes built to more-stringent codes: ‘Tree branches bounced off of our roof. But the house is fine.’ When Hurricane Wilma pummeled Florida in 2005, it nearly ripped the roof from Stephany Read more…
Clean Technica | Nexus Media | By: Marlene Cimons | September 16th, 2017: Orange isn’t just the new black. It’s also the new green. Twenty years ago, an orange juice producer dumped thousands of tons of orange peels and pulp onto a barren section of a Costa Rican national park, Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: William Steel | September 13, 2017: With the complete toll of Hurricane Irma beginning to reveal itself, renewable energy stakeholders take stock of lessons learned. Haiti-based micro-utility start-up Sigora Haiti is one such group. Holding a concession from the government of Haiti to be sole Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Jim Carlton | September 13, 2017: With a population expected to reach 5 million by 2050, state officials are looking at siphoning water from a river that feeds Great Salt Lake, but critics worry the plan will damage the environment and fragile wetlands. Mormon Read more…
Hydroworld.com | By: Elizabeth Ingram | GPE – September 12, 2017: “Community hydro” is a phrase we’ve been seeing fairly regularly recently, and it generally refers to a hydroelectric project where development was driven by a community, for the benefit of an array of shareholders. The National Energy Foundation in Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Jennifer Runyon | GPE – September 12, 2017: As homeowners and businesses continue to install energy generating equipment like batteries and solar PV behind their meters, forward-looking utilities such as San Diego Gas and Electric (SDG&E) are piloting projects that will help them figure out Read more…
Greentech Media | By: Julian Spector | GPE – September 12, 2017: For most, the payoff is not here yet, according to a new NREL study. But it’s coming as PV deployment increases. With so few utility-scale solar-plus-storage projects actually built, we don’t have much data on how their economics Read more…
Clean Technica | By: James Ayre | September 10th, 2017: The scale of the world’s current micro plastics pollution problem can’t be overstated. Plastics, and more importantly their nearly invisible half-broken-down remnants, are now everywhere. They’re in the food you eat, the water you drink, and even often enough in Read more…
Reuters | By: Laila Kearney | September 08, 2017: Texas communities flooded by Hurricane Harvey could see their property tax revenues sink, a financial blow that would leave many cities and counties struggling for years. Property taxes are the top source of revenue for local governments in Texas, which depend Read more…
Congressional Research Service | By: Linda Luther | September 06, 2017: Every year, communities in the United States are affected by disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, volcanoes, floods, wildfires, and winter storms. After a disaster, when a region turns its attention to rebuilding, one of the greatest challenges often Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By: Brett Walton | GPE – September 08, 2017: As rates rise, water authorities question longstanding affordability measurement. Originally published August 24, 2017: Earlier this year, Manny Teodoro, a Texas A&M University associate professor, sat in a meeting with a committee that advises the Phoenix Water Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By: Keith Schneider | GPE – September 07, 2017: Originally published July 14, 2016: Earlier this year, in an announcement that has become more routine around the world, Suy Sem, Cambodia’s minister of mines and energy, declared a moratorium on the construction of big hydropower dams Read more…
Science Daily | Source – Wildlife Conservation Society | GPE – September 07, 2017: Scientists used historical data and models to predict that almost 900 million tons of sediments would be retained by 6 potential new Andean dams on the Amazon river system. Scientists investigating the effects of six planned Read more…
Reuters | By: David Stanway | GPE – September 07, 2017: China has pledged to cut average concentrations of airborne particles known as PM2.5 by more than 15 percent year-on-year in the winter months in 28 northern cities to meet key smog targets, the environment ministry said. Originally published August Read more…
Reuters | By: Alex Whiting | GPE – September 07, 2017: A major project to restore land in Ethiopia’s Tigray Region to boost millions of people’s ability to grow food won gold on Tuesday in a U.N.-backed award for the world’s best policies to combat desertification and improve fertility of Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Jeremy Deaton | GPE – September 07, 2017: If the United States wants to kick its coal habit, it will need to install a lot more solar power. That raises an important question: Where should all those panels reside? They could always go live on a Read more…
Le Monde / Africa | Interview By: Ghalia Kadiri | GPE – September 07, 2017: For Mohamed Amine El Hajhouj, director of the Zenata Development Corporation, the project developed near Casablanca could be exported to other countries. Originally published August 29, 2017: Will the eco-city of Zenata make us forget Read more…
World Resources Institute | By: Natasha Ferrari | GPE – September 07, 2017: The World Conference on Ecological Restoration takes place in Iguazu Falls, Brazil. In anticipation of the conference, we spoke with experts on restoration taking place right nearby in Brazil—how it benefits the planet, how farmers can make Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Geoffrey Styles | GPE – September 05, 2017: Bloomberg’s renewable energy affiliate forecasts that wind and solar power will make major inroads into the global market share of natural gas within a decade. This is a crucially important question for major oil companies who are betting Read more…
The Guardian | By: Oliver Milman | Updated September 04, 2017: Communities face surging toxic fumes and possible water contamination, as refineries and plants report more than 2,700 tons of extra pollution Hurricane Harvey has resulted in Houston’s petrochemical industry leaking thousands of tons of pollutants, with communities living near Read more…
Financial Times | By: Various Authors | August 28, 2017: Centuries of centralisation blamed for neglect, rural flight and sense of abandonment In a wave of national solidarity, donations and emergency assistance have been flowing into the scattered hillside communities of central Portugal where devastating forest fires have claimed more Read more…
CleanTechnica | By: Tobias Engelmeier | August 18, 2017: The global microgrid market is ready for significant private investment. While there remain some challenges – especially around the regulatory framework and aggregation of projects – there are now enough businesses with viable business models to provide early stage, strategic or Read more…
US News | By: Jovana Gec ~ Associated Press | August 10, 2017: Authorities and experts are warning that extremely hot and dry summer this year in the Balkans has decimated crops, dried rivers and hurt the animal world. Evidence is piling up that this year’s sizzling summer in central Read more…
Science Daily | By: Kansas State University | August 02, 2017: A comparison of a section of the Arikaree River in northwest Kansas in 2006 on the left and in 1996 on the right shows the decreased water flow. Photos courtesy of Ryan Waters, Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Tom Nockolds | August 3rd, 2017: Community energy is a global phenomenon. Wherever we find people, we tend to find communities stepping forward to have a greater say and determination in what their future energy supplies should look like. These people are ensuring that their communities Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By: Brett Walton | GPE – August 04, 2017: Scientists do not know how much groundwater is left. Originally published June 16, 2015: Population growth and agriculture are putting unsustainable demands on the world’s largest aquifer systems, particularly those in the planet’s dry midsection, according to Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Saurabh Mahapatra | August 01, 2017: The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI), responsible for conducting wind energy auctions in India, has seen a tremendous response to the latest 1 gigawatt tender. Originally published on CleanTechies: According to media reports, project developers have placed bids to Read more…
World Resources Institute | By: Hidayah Hamzah Hidayah Hamzah | GPE – August 02, 2017: Flooding is the tragic norm in Jakarta, a megacity where major floods took 40 lives and cost IDR 32 trillion ($2.4 billion) in 2013. The floods were back early this year, and more are expected. Read more…
Inter Press Service (IPS) | By Daniel Gutman | GPE – August 01, 2017: Hand in hand with UN Environment and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) disembarked in the Argentine capital to prompt this country to adopt and promote the agenda of so-called green Read more…
The Guardian | By: Senay Boztas | July 27, 2017: A pilot scheme in the Netherlands is sifting sewage for cellulose, which it says can be recycled into valuable products. When you flush the toilet, you’re probably not thinking about bike lanes or home insulation. But that’s where your used Read more…
Time | By: Charlie Campbell / Baotou | Jul 27, 2017: With hands stretched wide, Meng Baoyindaogetao backs the ewe into a corner, seizes it by the horns and swings his leg over its back. A farmhand then approaches cradling an emaciated lamb, barely a few days old. The little Read more…
Clean Technica | By: James Ayre | July 27, 2017: The release of “treated” wastewater from hydraulic fracturing (fracking) operations in Pennsylvania has led to regional watersheds being contaminated with radioactive materials, endocrine-disrupting chemicals, and heavy metals, according to a new study from researchers at Penn State, Colorado State, and Read more…
The Guardian | By: Rebecca Smithers | July 26, 2017: Travellers are left to buy expensive and wasteful plastic bottles of water after passing through security, says consumer website MoneySavingExpert.com More than half of the UK’s international airports do not have free drinking water fountains installed in their departure lounges, Read more…
World Resources Institute | By: Tianyi Luo | July 26, 2017: India is making great strides to aggressively expand its renewable energy capacity. But the country’s power sector remains highly reliant on thermoelectric plants, with high demand for water for cooling. That means that droughts, like the one caused last Read more…
Reinsurance News | By: Luke Gallin | July 24, 2017: Brazilian reinsurer, IRB Brasil RE, has licensed RMS’ China and India agricultural models in an effort to expand its presence in the global reinsurance market. Global catastrophe risk modeller and analytics firm, RMS, announced recently that IRB Brasil RE has Read more…
ARS Technica | By: Megan Geuss | July 25, 2017: Without planning and cooperation, EU countries could be up against a water problem. Unless you work at a coal, gas, or nuclear plant, you may not think about water when you think about electricity (certainly at a household level; they Read more…
Global Infrastructure Outlook | Report | GPE – July 27, 2017: Developing and emerging economies will drive future economic growth, growing at more than twice the rate of advanced economies. By 2040, global GDP is predicted to almost double from 2015 levels. Global Infrastructure Outlook (Outlook) forecasts that developing and Read more…
Waterworld International | By Paul Grad | GPE – July 25, 2017: Costing AUD$11.2 million, the Sydney Park project embodies Australia’s advanced stormwater management success. Helping the city to meet ambitious targets, as well as reusing water, what can the site share with other countries facing stormwater challenges? Sydney Park, Read more…
The Guardian | Australian Associated Press | July 25, 2017: Modelling suggests Australia would face more frequent drought-inducing weather events beyond any climate stabilisation. Extreme El Niño events that can cause crippling drought in Australia are likely to be far more frequent even if the world pulls off mission improbable Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Zachary Shahan | GPE – July 23, 2017: We already published a great article from Nexus Media regarding Lazard’s new report showing the extremely low (and falling) costs of solar power and wind power. However, I’ve been wanting to highlight these awesome new findings since Larmion Read more…
Xinhua | Editor: Liangyu | July 22, 2017: BEIJING, July 22 (Xinhua) — High costs in grain production are posing challenges to China’s agricultural competitiveness, a report said. Rapidly-growing labor and land costs have boosted prices of homegrown farm produce to levels near or even higher than imported grain, according Read more…
Xinhua| Editor: Liangyu | July 22, 2017: BEIJING, July 22 (Xinhua) — A green manufacturing alliance was inaugurated Saturday to better support the country’s green and sustainable development, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). Led by the ministry, members of the Green Manufacturing Association of China Read more…
Clean Technica | By Zachary Shahan | GPE – July 23, 2017: Everything has its advantages and disadvantages, its pluses and minuses. So, naturally, there must be a number of solar power advantages and solar power disadvantages too, right? It’s been awhile since I ran down a list of solar Read more…
Clean Technica | By: James Ayre | July 21, 2017: More than 8.3 billion metric tons of plastics have been produced by humans since large-scale production began back in the 1950s, according to a new study published in the journal Science Advances. Almost all of this plastic now resides as Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: Andy Spalding | July 21, 2017: Bhutan – the tiny Himalayan kingdom nestled between China and India – now writes an anti-corruption story unlike any I have seen, and in the best of ways. Deliberately isolated from the outside world and its geopolitical machinations, Bhutan Read more…
Photon | Post date: 20/07/2017: The Hawaii Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has accepted the Hawaiian Electric Companies’ plan charting the near-term actions that will lead to 100 percent of Hawaii’s power generation needs coming from renewable resources by 2045. According to Heco, the Power Supply Improvement Plan Update describes the Read more…
The Guardian | By: Fiona Harvey | 20 July 2017: Hotels and local government in Cancún will pay premiums, and insurance industry will pay out if the reef is damaged by storms. A stretch of coral reef off Mexico is the testing ground for a new idea that could protect Read more…
Sagaret | Original In French | GPE – July 21, 2017: No buildings visible to the naked eye, no towers at Kengo Kuma. The famous Japanese architect, chosen to oversee the new Olympic stadium in Tokyo, has only one credo: to reintroduce nature in cities. What he plans to do Read more…
The Third Pole | By: Katherine Purvis, July 19, 2017: The Indian government’s policy of using treated sewage water to run operations in coal-fired power plants is not economically viable and will do little to resolve conflicts over water use. An ambitious plan to reduce the dependence of India’s coal-fired Read more…
Barclays | By: Durukal Gun , Christian Keller, Sree Kochugovindan, Tomasz Wieladek | GPE – July 21, 2017: The period of hyperglobalisation that began in the early 1990s may be drawing to a close. Should deglobalisation come to pass, it could have far-reaching consequences for countries, corporations, and investors. Originally Read more…
WaterWorld | By: Andrew Heath | GPE – July 21, 2017: Water infrastructure in the U.S. is in serious need of investment. The latest estimates from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) suggest that the nation’s drinking water infrastructure needs $384 billion in new investment and our sewage and stormwater systems Read more…
Rocky Mountain Institute | By: Kevin Brehm | July 12, 2017: Market responses show rural electric co-ops and municipal utilities can save money with solar. On March 22, 2017, Rocky Mountain Institute’s Shine Program released a request for proposals (RFP) for community-scale solar on behalf of a group of rural Read more…
OECD | Report | GPE – July 18, 2017: Since the beginning of China’s economic transformation in the early 1970s, investment has been a key driver of China’s growth and has contributed to substantial improvements in living standards. Report originally published October 27, 2016: Over three decades of average annual Read more…
Pacific Institute | By: Rapichan Phurisamban and Peter Gleick | GPE – July 17, 2017: In February of 2017, the Pacific Institute released a white paper entitled Drinking Fountains and Public Health: Improving National Infrastructure to Rebuild Trust and Ensure Access, which highlighted the limited evidence of a link between Read more…
Fortune International | GPE – July 16, 2017: The current focus of China on infrastructure development was explained in a special report originally published online by Fortune International on May 23rd 2013 – excerpted below: China is at a crossroads. Its leaders are committed to dramatically transforming the world’s second-largest Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Sven Lindström | July 13, 2017: The stars are aligned for a breakthrough of small-scale solar energy in urban areas. This could completely change the world, the planet’s source of energy generation and save the environment. However, there are also obstacles to this bright future Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Michele Capots | July 12, 2017: Hurricane Sandy, known as Superstorm Sandy, was the deadliest and most destructive hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season. Almost 2.5 million people were left without power in the aftermath of the storm. Damages were estimated to be more Read more…
World Resources Institute | By: Jiao Wang, Leah Schleifer and Lijin Zhong | GPE – July 13, 2017: Drought in Kenya and neighboring countries became so severe earlier this year that the government of Kenya declared a national disaster. Already, the effects have been devastating: Food production dropped, leaving more Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Giles Parkinson | July 11th, 2017: Chief scientist Alan Finkel says it is clear that investors in the energy market prefer wind and solar because they are cheaper to build than traditional generation such as hydro and coal. Speaking to the National Press Club 12 days Read more…
Greentech Media | By: Julia Pyper | GPE – July 12, 2017: Oil companies have realized that renewables aren’t going away—and they want to get in on the action. Originally published – June 13, 2017: Wind and solar have reached a point where they’re impossible for the world’s largest oil Read more…
Chatham House | By: Professor Paul Stevens | GPE July 12, 2017: The IOCs are faced with the choice of managing a gentle decline by downsizing or risking a rapid collapse by trying to carry on business as usual. Summary: Report Originally Published May 2016: The future of the major Read more…
Greentech Media | By: Julia Pyper | July 11, 2017: The oil giant’s New Energies division launched last year with an annual investment budget of just $200 million. Royal Dutch Shell is accelerating its move into alternative energy, with plans to spend up to $1 billion per year on its Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Jeff Yan | July 10, 2017: As the country seeks to install energy generation capacity at lightning pace, China is looking at how smart technologies in large solar PV plants can help save time and money while increasing energy production. As the private sector increasingly Read more…
UPI | By Brooks Hays | July 10, 2017 at 3:46 PM: “The future long-term trend based on paleoclimate reconstructions is likely towards diminishing precipitation,” researcher Sevag Mehterian said. July 10 (UPI) — New analysis of Iranian stalagmites have offered a detailed history of water resources in the region. The Read more…
Xinhua | Editor: Mengjie | 2017-07-10: BEIJING, July 10 (Xinhua) — China has made progress in addressing environmental misconduct at drinking water sources in cities along the Yangtze River Economic Belt, the Ministry of Environmental Protection said Monday. In May 2016, the ministry began an operation to inspect the management Read more…
Xinhua| Editor: An | 2017-07-10: With an area of about 400 square kilometers, the Purog Kangri glacier in Tibet is considered to be the third largest glacier in the world. It is melting at an accelerated rate, which has caused the formation of plenty of rivers and lakes, according to Read more…
Bloomberg | By: Brian K Sullivan | 7 July 2017: Texas struggled through its driest year in history in 2011. Four years later was its wettest ever. The Mississippi River rose to all-time-high flood levels in 2011. In 2012, its second-lowest. After a six-year drought that made agricultural irrigation a Read more…
The Washington Post | By: Elizabeth Douglass | July 8 at 7:00 AM: LAKE STATION, Ind. — This hard-luck town just south of Chicago is weighing a decision confronting many small and midsize cities with shrinking populations and chronic budget deficits: whether to sell the public water system to a Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: John Farrell | July 6, 2017: Two key moves will propel San Francisco toward an all-renewable electricity mix by 2030, potentially making the city — the 13th largest in the nation — a model for others eyeing a similar transition. In April 2016, city policy Read more…
Clean Technica | The Guardian | By: Steve Hanley | July 7th, 2017: Sea walls and barriers built by the Romans have endured for 1,500 years — far longer than anything made with modern concrete, which relies almost exclusively on Portland cement. A group of scientists was curious about Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Jess Shankleman, Bloomberg | July 6, 2017: BlackRock Inc. exceeded a $1 billion fundraising target for wind and solar investments for its latest global clean energy fund, underscoring investor interest in renewable energy amid policy uncertainty in key markets. The second Global Renewable Power Fund, Read more…