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Climate change: Act now on floods, drought, says forum
Istanbul (AFP) March 17, 2009Nations should throw themselves into building defences against floods and drought, which may already be multiplying due to climate change, the World Water Forum here heard on Tuesday. The biggest-ever gathering on tackling the world's water crisis was warned that water-related catastrophes are more frequent and more brutal, inflicting a rising toll in lives and damage, and greenhouse gases ... more Thirsty Cyprus looks to golf to rescue tourism 
Nicosia (AFP) March 17, 2009Cyprus turns into near desert in the summer and is counting on desalination to provide green fairways for golfers and save the country's troubled tourism industry. But environmentalists fear the impact of building a dozen more desalination plants to enable the number of golf courses on the island to multiply from three to 17. To cope with serious drought -which saw Cyprus reservoirs dr ... more Water a costly commodity in storm-ravaged Haiti 
Gonaives, Haiti (AFP) March 17, 2009Six months after devastating hurricanes and storms descended on Haiti, drinking water remains a rare and precious commodity in the northern city of Gonaives. Mudslides last year buried the city under 2.6 million tonnes of mud and completely destroyed the already crumbling national drinking water network (Snep) which operates via water-selling stands and private wells. With some unable to ... more March rains banish spectre of drought in Jordan 
Shuneh, Jordan (AFP) March 17, 2009A country that is 92 percent desert is always going to have a water problem. In Jordan, one of the 10 driest places on Earth, the constant fear is that crops will fail. Farmers in the Jordan Valley are heaving sighs of relief as bountiful rain in the generally bone-dry kingdom so far this month is helping to stave off the annualt threat of drought. Heavy rainfall in March has filled abou ... more Financial crisis could help water investment, says OECD 
Istanbul (AFP) March 16, 2009Tens of billions of dollars are needed annually to fix the world's water systems, but policies to address the global financial crisis could help meet the target, the OECD says. In a report to the World Water Forum in Istanbul, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) says demands for fresh water are soaring while resources, under mounting stress, urgently need to be c ... more |
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Istanbul (AFP) March 16, 2009The World Water Forum, a seven-day arena aimed at addressing the planet's deepening crisis of fresh water, was launched here Monday amid a violent protest broken up by riot police using tear gas. The forum, held only every three years, will address growing water scarcity, the risk of conflict as countries squabble over rivers, lakes and aquifers, and how to provide clean water and sanitation ... more California's drought-resistent gardens are hot 
Pasadena, California (AFP) March 16, 2009Even grinding recession has not undone growth in one corner of California's drought-parched landscaping sector, where Robert Cornell has spent more than two decades fine-tuning climate friendly gardens. In Pasadena, a wealthy suburban area northeast of Los Angeles, amid the rows of luxurious flowers and freshly mowed lawns, there is little sign that California is in a drought emergency after ... more NASA Launches Eyes On The Earth 3-D 
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 14, 2009New interactive features on NASA's Global Climate Change Web site give the public the opportunity to "fly along" with NASA's fleet of Earth science missions and observe Earth from a global perspective in an immersive, 3-D environment. Developed using a state-of-the-art, browser-based visualization technology, "Eyes on the Earth 3-D" displays the location of all of NASA's 15 currently opera ... more Japan 'oyster toilets' set to go global 
Tokyo (AFP) March 13, 2009Japan's toilet makers, famed for their high-tech latrines, want to go global with a simple, water-saving design based on oysters, a manufacturer said Friday. The design removes pollutants and acidity by filtering wastewater through large tanks filled with oyster shells, a by-product of the seafood industry in southern Hiroshima prefecture, the manufacturer said. Oysters offer a natural ... more CALIPSO Finds Smoke At High Altitudes Down Under 
Hampton VA (SPX) Mar 14, 2009As smoke plumes from powerful bushfires clouded the Australian skies in early February, satellites orbiting the Earth captured the rapid dispersal of smoke in real-time. One particular satellite, however, saw the occurrence from a different perspective than the rest and uncovered a rare phenomenon. The NASA Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO), using ... more |
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Paris (AFP) March 12, 2009Surging population growth, climate change, reckless irrigation and chronic waste are placing the world's water supplies at threat, a landmark UN report said on Thursday. Compiled by 24 UN agencies, the 348-page document gave a grim assessment of the state of the planet's freshwater, especially in developing countries, and described the outlook for coming generations as deeply worrying. W ... more Lowly maggot poised to boost income, cut pollution 
Marseille, France (AFP) March 12, 2009Dirt poor peasants in the tropics could be thrown an economic lifeline after a lucky discovery by French scientists involving a useless palm oil by-product and the lowly maggot. The synergy of two otherwise nuisance agents produced a virtually cost-free feed for farmed fish while reducing a pungent source of pollution -- a potential boon in countries like Indonesia, one of the world's larges ... more Fowl Soil Additive Breaks Down Crude Oil 
Wuhan, China (SPX) Mar 13, 2009It is an unlikely application, but researchers in China have discovered that chicken manure can be used to biodegrade crude oil in contaminated soil. Writing in the International Journal of Environment and Pollution the team explains how bacteria in chicken manure break down 50% more crude oil than soil lacking the guano. Bello Yakubu, Huiwen Ma, and ChuYu Zhang of Wuhan University, China, ... more Sale Of Tehachapi Wind Project Validates Green St. Energy's Strategy 
Tehachapi CA (SPX) Mar 13, 2009Green St. Energy has announced that a recently completed sale of the Alta Wind Project in Tehachapi, located in the County of Kern, California, a prolific area for the production of energy from wind, validates the Company's decision to enter into an option agreement that provides it a three-year option to acquire 4,840 areas of land located in Tehachapi to develop a wind farm. Green St. pr ... more Satellites track leaf beetle infestation 
Salt Lake City (UPI) Mar 10, 2009 University of Utah scientists say they have successfully used satellite data to monitor saltcedar leaf beetle defoliation along the Colorado River. The scientists said thousands of the beetles (Diorhabda elongate) were brought to Utah from Kazakhstan and were released during the summers of 2004, 2005 and 2006 to help eradicate a small Eurasian tree named tamarisk or saltcedar. The trees ... more
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