Water

Farouk El-Baz: From Egypt's Deserts to the Moon and Back

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 11.11.2009 | World


Magda Abu-Fadil

El-Baz plans to highlight the issues of sustainable development and self-preservation at the Arab Environment 2009 conference in Beirut, Lebanon this November

Feds to Release Plan to Clean Up Chesapeake Bay

Nancy Stoner | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green


Nancy Stoner

The Chesapeake Bay watershed spans portions of six states and more than 60,000 square miles. The only way to clean up the Bay is to get all of those states to work at home to clean up the streams.

Green News Report - September 8, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green


Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

In today's report: the rising cost of fighting wildfires, and is Jaws back?

Disorder on the Border: Trashing the Law in the Name of Immigration Deterrence

Randall Amster | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics


Randall Amster

The strategy of deterrence that drives both border enforcement and crackdowns on humanitarians is fundamentally flawed.

Fruit Water - Can I or Can I Not?

Stefan Aschan | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living


Stefan Aschan

Walk into any supermarket and you will be bombarded with the smarter, better, or life changing water. You walk down the ale and then you don't know what makes sense.

Rage Against Science and Reason: Fear Continues as a Tool of Distraction

J. Carl Ganter | Posted 09.08.2009 | Politics


J. Carl Ganter

Dr. Peter Gleick rolls up his sleeves in his latest post about science, fact and rationality.

Examining Monsanto's Greenwashing

guardian.co.uk | Fred Pearce | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green


In part, no doubt, to help salvage its GM-tarnished reputation, Monsanto now makes great play of its efforts to help engineer a second green revolutio...

Single LA Fire Consumes One Year's Worth Of Water

news.xinhuanet.com | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green


Firefighting aircraft have dropped about 1.7 million gallons of water and nearly 700,000 gallons of fire-retardant chemicals in an effort to put out t...

Turkey, Iraq And Syria Tussle Over Water Rights In Light Of Drought

AP | SUZAN FRASER | Posted 10.19.2009 | Home


ANKARA, Turkey — In a change of heart, Turkey said Thursday it would strive to increase the amount of water it releases to Syria and Iraq throug...

What South Africa's Water Trial Can Teach Us About Health Care For All

Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics


Emma Ruby-Sachs

Let's hope that the Constitutional Court and the U.S. court of public opinion come to the right conclusion and accept responsibility for essential services.

Green News Report - September 1, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green


Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Fires rage across California as Hurricane Jimena bears down on Baja; Lights out for incandescent lightbulbs; The Summer of...

Thirsting for Truth: No "Safe" Level of Atrazine

Timothy LaSalle | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green


Timothy LaSalle

Even atrazine's advocates do not deny the toxicity of the chemical outright -- it is, in fact, a substance created to kill. The legal pollution in our water has unacceptable human consequences.

Green News Report - August 27, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 09.27.2009 | Green


Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Happy Anniversaries -- sort of; The Politics of "Fracking"; How about some weed-killer in your drinking water?... PLUS: Another sad loss for the environment... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

Water Utilities Lack Proper Filters For Weed-Killer

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Danielle Ivory | Posted 11.04.2009 | Green


Results from a federal drinking water monitoring program show that many public water companies are ineffective at removing a widely used weed-killer f...

Women Prefer Sleep, Water To Sex, Survey Says

cookinglight.com | Posted 09.27.2009 | Living


When it comes to health, drinking the recommended daily amount of water is more important to women than having enough sex, according to a national sur...

Water Contamination In Wyoming Could Be From Natural Gas Drilling

ProPublica | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green


Federal environment officials investigating drinking water contamination [1] near the ranching town of Pavillion, Wyo., have found that at least three...

Water Tops Climate Change as Global Priority

J. Carl Ganter | Posted 08.25.2009 | Green


J. Carl Ganter

According to our new Circle of Blue GlobeScan public opinion survey, WaterViews, we now know that people globally care most about water.

A New Chapter In The Erin Brockovich/Hexavalent Chromium Story

John DeCock | Posted 09.22.2009 | Green


John DeCock

Our primary concern now is that further delay by the state not only puts those drinking Hexavalent Chromium at risk, but delays clean up of water supplies and fails to hold polluters accountable.

The Brutal Battle to Kill King Coal

John DeCock | Posted 09.20.2009 | Green


John DeCock

A prolonged, determined effort is going to be necessary to end the life of King Coal.

A Blight On Summer: Where Have All the Tomatoes Gone?

Michele Kayal | Posted 09.18.2009 | Living


Michele Kayal

This weekend I was asked to pass judgment on tomatoes. Which is far better than water because a) they have an actual taste, and b) good tomatoes are so hard to come by.

Going Gray to Get Green

Jennifer Schwab | Posted 09.14.2009 | Green


Jennifer Schwab

For homeowners with larger lots of, say, a quarter acre and up, gray water systems can make an immediate impact on preserving this precious resource while reducing your water bill significantly.

How Far Does Your Bottle Of Water Travel To Reach You?

Mother Jones | —Rachel Morris and Daniel Schulman | Posted 09.13.2009 | Green


We charted the miles per bottle for nine top water brands....

Contest: Six-Words on Water

Larry Smith | Posted 09.12.2009 | Green


Larry Smith

Here's a Six-Word Challenge about one of summer's treats and earth's increasingly rare resources: water

Unplug and Recharge: A Refreshing Summer Elixir

Sara Avant Stover | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living


Sara Avant Stover

Cucumber water is so refreshing on hot summer days and looks quite elegant simply sitting on the kitchen counter or table, too.

Green News Report - August 11, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 09.11.2009 | Green


Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

Is climate change a threat to national security?