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Watershed project conserves Himachal’s ecology, boosts economy
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 26th, 2016
Indo-Asian News Service: The World Bank-funded Mid-Himalayan Watershed Development Project in Himachal Pradesh has helped preserve natural resources and prevent soil erosion besides ensuring substantial improvement in the local economy.
The project was started in October 2005 in 10 districts, a government spokesperson told IANS. Initially, 602 gram panchayats of 42 development blocks were covered.
However, considering the fruitful results, another 108 panchayats that were covered under a micro watershed programme were...
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Comments Off on Watershed project conserves Himachal’s ecology, boosts economyBernie bashes Hillary on Keystone and other pipelines
Posted by Grist: None Given on January 26th, 2016
Grist: Bernie Sanders came after Hillary Clinton on climate change and energy issues on Monday night. At a Democratic candidate town hall forum in Iowa, Sanders argued that he has the judgment to be president, pointing out that, unlike Clinton, he was correct from the start in opposing both the Iraq War and Keystone XL.
“On day one, I said the Keystone Pipeline is a dumb idea,” said Sanders - who, as it happens, looks remarkably like Larry David doing Bernie Sanders. "I think the Bakken pipeline, and...
Black Lives Matters calls Flint water crisis an act of “state violence”
Posted by Grist: Raven Rakia on January 26th, 2016
Grist: As Michigan`s neglect and indifference toward the Flint water crisis continues to make headlines, activists and social justice groups are throwing their support behind the residents still suffering from lead-contaminated water supply. The most recent of these advocates is Black Lives Matter: On Friday, the group released a solidarity statement linking the Flint water crisis to other instances of environmental racism and called the human-made disaster an example of state violence.
The statement...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Black Lives Matters calls Flint water crisis an act of “state violence”2 Offices Won’t Investigate New York Constitutional Amendment on Adirondack Mining
Posted by New York Times: Susanne Craig on January 26th, 2016
New York Times: The offices of the New York attorney general and inspector general have declined to open investigations into the 2013 constitutional amendment that allowed a private company, NYCO Minerals, to conduct open-pit mining on state land in the Adirondack Mountains. Protect the Adirondacks, one of several environmental groups that opposed the amendment, requested the inquiries, accusing state officials of violating the New York Constitution by advocating the amendment. The group obtained hundreds of documents...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on 2 Offices Won’t Investigate New York Constitutional Amendment on Adirondack MiningOhio water system operator failed to notify public of unsafe lead levels
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 26th, 2016
Associated Press: Ohio is sending pallets of bottled water and testing kits to several communities after environmental officials said the operator of a small water system failed to notify the public for months that unsafe levels of lead had been found in some homes. The state Environmental Protection Agency issued an emergency order Monday forbidding James Bates from working at the Sebring village water treatment plant and informing him that the agency intends to revoke his operating license for endangering the public...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Ohio water system operator failed to notify public of unsafe lead levelsPressure building on global water supply
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 25th, 2016
ScienceDaily: If current trends continue, domestic and industrial water demand would more than double by the year 2050, and continue to increase after that, according to a new study published in the journal Geoscientific Model Development. The study introduces the first scenarios from the IIASA Water Futures and Solutions (WFaS) initiative, a multi-year interdisciplinary research project focusing on global water challenges and solutions, and explains the methodology and models used by the research initiative....
Plaintiffs’ lawyers wary of taking on Flint water scandal
Posted by Reuters: Brendan Pierson on January 25th, 2016
Reuters: The water scandal in Flint, Michigan has many of the ingredients for a mass, class-action lawsuit: danger signs that may have been ignored, many thousands of potential victims, the possibility of lifelong health problems, and the alleged systemic failure of people in charge.
Even consumer activist Erin Brockovich, the main subject of a 2000 movie named after her, has drawn attention to Flint's plight on her Facebook page and in public appearances.
But big-name, national plaintiffs' firms have...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Plaintiffs’ lawyers wary of taking on Flint water scandal2015 was warmest year on record; El Niño, climate change to blame
Posted by Republic: Weldon B. Johnson on January 25th, 2016
Republic: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's most recent State of the Climate report confirmed what many climatologists have been predicting for most of the past year. The year 2015 was the warmest since records on that statistic have been kept starting in 1880.
The average temperature last year was 1.62 degreesFahrenheit above the 20th-century average of 57 degrees. That temperature topped the record set in 2014 by 0.29 degrees. Last year not only was the warmest calendar year, it also...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on 2015 was warmest year on record; El Niño, climate change to blameThe surprising way that climate change could worsen East Coast blizzards
Posted by Washington Post: Chris Mooney on January 25th, 2016
Washington Post: As the East Coast digs out from the enormous snowfalls of Winter Storm Jonas, a prominent climate scientist has drawn a provocative connection between the storm, warm ocean temperatures off the U.S. and a slowdown of ocean circulation in the North Atlantic that may also be behind a much discussed cold ‘blob‘ to the southeast of Greenland.
“People have thought, you get this cold blob, and it’s going to maybe affect Britain,” says Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research,...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on The surprising way that climate change could worsen East Coast blizzardsAlaskan Yellow Cedar: Saving It, A New Report
Posted by Nature World News: None Given on January 25th, 2016
Nature World News: As less and less snow has fallen over the West Coast, yellow-cedar forests across Alaska have rapidly declined within the last century. The stately conifers grow up to 78 feet tall and are historically a major part of forests north of the top of California. A new report from the U.S. Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Research Station addresses the threat to them and outlines a climate adaptation strategy designed to help save the iconic trees.
"Our report assesses the past, current, and expected...