By GETRUDE GUMEDE, Published: Wednesday January 13, 2010 ZIMBABWE – HARARE – WATER supplies for Harare and surrounding satellite towns could be cut by 15 percent following the imminent temporary shutdown of Prince Edward Water Treatment Plant until the Manyame River starts flowing. Harare City Council might be forced to close Prince Edward Water Treatment […]
By TOM ALLARD, KALIMANTANDecember 14, 2009 A BOAT trip down the wide brown waters of the Kapuas River and the canals that flow off it, crisscrossing the hinterland of Central Kalimantan, makes for a depressing tour. What was once one of the world’s great swamp peat forests is a tangle of weeds and burnt trees. […]
By Auslan CrambPublished: 11:40AM GMT 15 Jan 2010 The catch and release policy will operate on the River Tay from January to the end of May, with other conservation measures in place for the rest of the summer and autumn. The radical measure has been introduced by the Tay District Salmon Fisheries board after a […]
NTVKenya — As the government prepares for that massive tree planting exercise to save the Mau, indiscriminate felling of trees continues in parts of Mau unabated. Our cameras captured the latest logging activities inside the contentious water catchment area. Tree felling intensifies in the Mau Technorati Tags: deforestation,Kenya,Africa,freshwater depletion,drought,global warming,climate change,climate refugees
The continent of Antarctica has been losing more than 100 cubic kilometers (24 cubic miles) of ice per year since 2002. Measurements from the Grace satellites confirm that Antarctica is losing mass 11. Isabella Velicogna of JPL and the University of California, Irvine, uses Grace data to weigh the Antarctic ice sheet from space. Her […]
The treeless ecosystem of mosses, lichens, and berry plants is giving way to shrub land and boreal forest. As scientists study the transformation, they are discovering that major warming-related events, including fires and the collapse of slopes due to melting permafrost, are leading to the loss of tundra in the Arctic. By Bill Sherwonit During […]
By PETER KERJanuary 13, 2010 MELBOURNE’S dams collected more water than the city needed in 2009, but it was a rare triumph for the old system at the end of a dire decade. Data released yesterday showed the decade between 2000 and 2009 was easily the driest on record for inflows to the city’s major […]
By TOM ARUPJanuary 13, 2010 THE NSW Government has agreed to allow some of the floodwater finding its way into the Murray-Darling river system to flow through to the endangered Coorong wetlands at the mouth of the Murray in South Australia. The decision by the Premier, Kristina Keneally, yesterday comes after immense pressure from the […]
By BRIAN ROBINSJanuary 13, 2010 RISING average temperatures are reducing run-off into Sydney dams when it rains, putting the future of the city’s water supplies under a cloud. As a result, Sydney Water wants to operate the Kurnell desalination plant even when there are several years’ water supply in the Sydney dam network. Trials are […]
January 12, 2010 by Terry Devitt (PhysOrg.com) — As global climate change fuels more frequent and intense hurricanes and droughts, migratory birds, especially those whose populations are already in decline, will bear the brunt of such climate-fueled weather, suggest a pair of new studies. Writing in the December online issue of the journal Global Change […]
