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Sandra Steingraber: Next 12 Steps to Stop Fracking in New York
EcoWatch: 1. I am writing you from an airport in Wisconsin. Continue reading
Rain to help raise Mississippi River, ease shipper woes
Reuters: A storm moving up the Mississippi River valley will help replenish the river, low in parts from drought, and ease concerns that shipping could be halted along a shallow stretch from St. Louis to Cairo, Illinois. Shipping groups had warned as recently as last week of an effective closure of the river along that busy stretch, through which billions of dollars of grain, coal, fertilizer and other commodities flow every year. Continue reading
Fracking North Dakota
EcoWatch: In 1979, Brenda and Richard Jorgenson built a split level home in the midst of a large ranch outside the tiny town of White Earth, North Dakota. Richard’s family is from the area–his grandfather started homesteading on the plains in 1915–and the couple’s affinity for the area runs deep. Continue reading
Flood-hit Pakistan moves toward disaster insurance
AlertNet: Hussain Khan lost everything in the 2010 floods that swept through Pakistan: His two children, his home on the banks of the Swat River, his dozens of cattle, sheep and goats, and his six-acre cherry crop. Today the 43-year-old farmer, the sole breadwinner for a family of 10, works as a motel waiter in Mingora, a bustling town in the Swat Valley, some 160 kms (100 miles) northwest of Pakistan’s capital city Islamabad Continue reading
Flood-hit Pakistan moves toward disaster insurance
AlertNet: Hussain Khan lost everything in the 2010 floods that swept through Pakistan: His two children, his home on the banks of the Swat River, his dozens of cattle, sheep and goats, and his six-acre cherry crop. Today the 43-year-old farmer, the sole breadwinner for a family of 10, works as a motel waiter in Mingora, a bustling town in the Swat Valley, some 160 kms (100 miles) northwest of Pakistan’s capital city Islamabad. He is grateful to no longer be begging to survive, but he doubts he will recover… Continue reading
Waterkeepers Take Legal Action to Stop Toxic Coal Ash from Contaminating Groundwater
Waterkeeper Alliance: Conservation groups today asked the N.C. Continue reading
Floods Dampen Thai Adaptation Plans
Inter Press Service: Thailand’s flood-management blueprint received a jolt when the dykes in Sukhothai were breached by the rain-swollen Yom river last week, submerging large stretches of the former royal capital.Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra toured the flood-damaged historic city 430 km north of Bangkok, reliving relief operations that were mounted last year when the central plains, including the capital, were hit by the worst floods in the country’s history. The barriers designed to prevent the river overflowing… Continue reading
Saving the Top 100 Threatened Species – a Question of Valuing Life
Inter Press Service: The Red River Giant softshell turtle (Rafetus swinhoei) is the stuff of legend in Vietnam. The fabled turtle in Hanoi’s Hoan Kiem Lake is popularly known by the name Kim Qui or Golden Turtle God, and it made its first historical appearance in 250 BC. Today this species could indeed use some divine intervention Continue reading
River turns red in China
Telegraph: State broadcaster CCTV said that the environmental protection bureau in Chongqing had ruled out the possibilities of industrial and sewage pollution causing the river to turn red. “It’s not a problem,” one boatman said in Chongqing. Continue reading
