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Pittsburgh’s leaky faucet: How aging sewers are impacting urban watersheds
ScienceDaily: Aging sewer systems are spilling a considerable amount of nitrogen into urban watersheds, diminishing both the quality of water and ecosystems’ habitats. Continue reading
Pittsburgh’s leaky faucet: How aging sewers are impacting urban watersheds
ScienceDaily: Aging sewer systems are spilling a considerable amount of nitrogen into urban watersheds, diminishing both the quality of water and ecosystems’ habitats. Continue reading
Canada warns EU on oil sands ranking plan
Reuters: Canada warned on Sunday it will “defend its interests” if the European Union (EU) goes through with a proposal to rank Canadian oil sands as a highly polluting fuel. In a letter to EU Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger, Canadian Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver also said the European Commission’s Fuel Quality Directive (FQD) potentially violates the EU’s international trade obligations Continue reading
Database Highlights Projects That Convert Runoff into Public Resources
Yale Environment 360: The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has launched a public database of 479 projects that use green infrastructure techniques to divert and process urban stormwater before it reaches rivers, lakes, estuaries and other waterways. By using such methods as rain gardens, green roofs, and bioretention — which replicates the uptake and storage of chemicals and sediment by wetlands — designers say the projects have improved the quality of water in their cities and towns, while converting… Continue reading
Australia: Act now on climate change before it is too late
Canberra Times: We need to start taking climate change seriously and working out measures to address it. Over the past 18 months the quality of the political dialogue on climate change in Australia has spiralled downwards, following the removal of Malcolm Turnbull as leader of the Coalition in December 2009, and Kevin Rudd’s repudiation of his own policy on responding to climate change in April 2010. Increasing numbers of Australians have simply tuned out of this discussion and, if asked, will either confess… Continue reading
Energy use is up in the state, report shows
CT Post: Animals from tropical waters have been showing up in Connecticut waterways and cold-loving creatures, like lobsters, are becoming more scarce. Continue reading
