and prevent them from sinking into mud at the bottom of ponds swamps and rivers.
is the task leader of the bank's Biodiversity Conservation Corridors Initiative in the Greater Mekong Subregion.
such as the World Agroforestry Centre's Making Mekong Connected initiative, are exploring the potential of carbon trading
and rivers dried up would be the end of the XTBG.
Temperature rises threaten global food security: Nature Newsrising temperatures during crop-growing seasons will pose a serious threat to food security by 2090, scientists report.
The over-extraction of groundwater has decreased the run off of many rivers-including the Yellow River
Canada's Chalk River, Ontario, reactor whose closure precipitated the isotope crisis will not reopen until 2010.
The Amazon river basin covers some 7 million square kilometres and nearly half of Brazil. By some estimates 15%of the basin has been cleared in recent decades.
After a bitter and lengthy controversy over water management, four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River in Oregon and California will be removed to restore salmon runs.
'the proportion of a stream or river not attributable to direct run off from precipitation or melting snow.
But in basins that contain small rivers afforestation can reduce base flow by up to 50,
at least for his study areas, the ideal balance between afforestation and water needs is for one-quarter of the river basin to be planted with between 400 and 500 trees per hectare.
what the Nazca were doing to their river valleys. Preserved tree trunks are scattered across the now-deserted lower Ica valley, about 200 km south of Lima, indicating a significant landscape change.
which once created woodland oases that lined the rivers in the otherwise desert landscape. But as Chepstow-Lusty moved forward in time through the pollen record, he found a gradual decrease in huarango pollen and a concomitant increase in pollen from agricultural sources
Consequently, the country's numerous lakes, rivers and coastal waters have suffered from repeated outbreaks of algal blooms owing to the excess of nutrients polluting the water.
including the pollution of rivers and lakes. But Chinese farmers are often unaware of the consequences of over-fertilization.
John Niles, the director of the Tropical forest Group, a non-governmental organization based in San diego, California, that focuses on forest policy, warns that funnelling support into existing protected areas through REDD may be tricky because of the ongoing debates about what constitutes a carbon saving.
says Niles. The legal additionality issue has been a problem in the past, he says. Why would wealthy governments pay for
But Niles adds that because REDD-plus does not yet have a governing body or mechanism, there is an opportunity change the rules.
The researchers infected mosquitoes in the lab with West Nile Ross River or chikungunya viruses. About 10 days later, they captured more than 90 mosquitoes,
placed each one in a separate vial and allowed them to feed on the honey-soaked cards for 2 days.
where they were tested for Ross River and Barmah Forest viruses. VIRAL RNA was found on the cards and in the mosquitoes that fed on the cards.
and Charles river Laboratories in Wilmington, Massachusetts, shifting more of their operations to emerging markets. Funding Mental health call:
based in Ludwigshafen am Rhein has been approved for cultivation in the EU, and 16 other crops are still awaiting final approval.
overlooking the Ceyhan River flowing toward the Mediterranean. In 1957, her wish was granted, and an outdoor museum with some shelters designed by her husband was completed in 1960.
when the government wanted to dam the Ceyhan River, which would have flooded many archaeological sites.
water is being diverted from the swollen Indus river into irrigation canals. But engineers are warning that these canals are becoming swamped,
These have flowed from the high ground in the north of the country along the Indus river tributaries,
and the barrage gates that control the flow of the river. The Pakistan Irrigation and Power Department has declared many embankments along a 160-mile stretch of the Indus in the Sindh province to be in danger of breaking.
two of the largest barrages in the Sindh province, where more than 25,000 cubic metres per second of water was flowing down the river.
%Excess phosphorus in many of China's lakes, coastal waters and rivers has caused repeated occurrences of harmful algal blooms known as eutrophication.
and others who are dependent on the river and presented scientists with what was seen as a rare opportunity to investigate the world's largest rainforest in extreme distress.
Water levels in the primary tributary Rio Negro or Black River are at historic lows. Although deforestation in Brazil has decreased,
If all the water in a river is used by agriculture and industry, leaving nothing for the aquatic environment,
and the river will die. How can we change the way we use and manage water?
The spill severely contaminated two tributaries of the Danube, killing all wildlife in the small River Marcal.
which lowered river levels and stranded equipment, a team of Brazilian and German scientists have installed a small meteorology tower
Just as importantly, says John Niles, director of the Tropical forest Group in San diego California, the agreement calls on an existing technical body to look into the programme rules
says Niles. This is the biggest decision we could have asked for. Delegates also agreed to establish a Green Climate Fund to be managed by representatives of the developed and developing world to help channel aid;
Dividing Europe into five regions, they tallied for each region how this climate regime would affect today's economy in five areas agriculture, human health, coastal flooding, river flooding and tourism.
thousands of people might be spared river floods as a result of reduced spring snow melt; and 25%more tourists might flock to its shores.
and rivers needs to be so that the water is polluted not by eroded soil and fertilizers.
could allowing cattle to graze in the country's Alpine National park the picturesque setting for the film The Man from Snowy River reduce the risk of bushfires?
and to tackle the pollution of water supplies downstream in the Yangtze river. Other problems that the council plans to address include the dam's potential to cause seismic disasters,
and lower reaches of the Yangtze that has devastated farmland and left millions of people short of drinking water.
Research Cholera in Haiti The cholera epidemic currently raging through Haiti was introduced inadvertently to the country through faecal contamination of river water,
The Amazon basin in South america, the Congo Basin in Central africa and the Borneo-Mekong Basin in Southeast asia are home to about 80%of the world's rainforests and two-thirds of global terrestrial biodiversity.
and the Borneo-Mekong Basin has developed a secondary industry to process its wood. We need to work together to promote best forest practices in the three basins.
Many countries within the Amazon and Borneo-Mekong regions were unrepresented. This meeting sort of came out of the blue,
 the ecologically sensitive areas along rivers and streams, on steep slopes and hilltops throughout Brazil.
Conservationists are concerned that the pending law would reduce the width of preserved forested areas along rivers.
The preserved area, for instance, will be measured from the low river level mark, where the riverbank is during the drier season,
and they keep rivers flowing with some quality. Â They re very sensitive and they re under risk.
Geochemist Germain Bayon and his colleagues at The french Research Institute for Exploration of the Sea in Plouzanã examined the weathering of sediment samples drawn from the mouth of the Congo river.
His team found that DNA surveys of water samples from a Canadian river identified the same invertebrate species as visual surveys7.
Cash reward for saving Australia's watera contentious plan to reduce the amount of water that can be taken from the rivers in Australia s Murray-Darling Basin would reap billions of dollars in ecological benefits,
But the extraction of too much water from the basin s rivers has triggered increases in the salinity of water
The largest benefits would come to the Murray river, including the downstream Lower Lakes and Coorong regions, in the form of increased tourism and improved water quality, for example.
scale back forest protections along rivers and hills, give state and local governments more authority over forests,
That record includes pushing forward with the controversial Belo Monte dam on the Xingu River in the eastern Amazon,
and in April they won a challenge in the state of Rio grande do Sul, where a judge ruled that the company s levy was illegal.
and pollute local rivers  as well as depriving the government of an estimated US$305 million in taxes each year.
and a large proportion of that ends up in rivers or is released into the atmosphere. Miners combine mercury with sediments that contain gold  typically using their feet to mix them in a bucket
Because the metal accumulates in rivers, elevated mercury levels were much more common in those who ate a lot of fish:
after it became clear that about three-quarters of the soya crops produced in the southern state of Rio grande do Sul were already being grown from Roundup Ready seeds that had been smuggled in from Argentina.
In 2009, a consortium of farming syndicates from Rio grande do mounted Sul a legal challenge to the levy,
a judge in Rio grande do decided Sul that Monsanto s levy was illegal, noting that the patents relating to Roundup Ready soya beans have expired already in Brazil.
pending consideration by the Justice Tribune of Rio grande do Sul. But in 2011, Monsanto had made also a parallel legal bid to the Brazilian Supreme court of Justice, the country's highest federal court.
and also that any final ruling should be limited to Rio grande do Sul, fearing that its losses would be even greater
deciding unanimously that the ruling by the Justice Tribune of Rio grande do Sul, once it is made,
"Persistent and extreme June dryness across the central and Eastern corn belt and extreme late June and early July heat from the central Plains to the Ohio river Valley have lowered substantially yield prospects across most of the major growing regions,
where the agricultural caucus has been trying to further cut down its provisions for safeguarding forested land near rivers.
and cooperative conservation measures will improve the water quality of our lakes, rivers, streams and coastal environments.
among other things, would have removed forest protection along rivers and slopes, and would have allowed lawbreakers to receive a blanket amnesty.
and will use physical boundaries, such as rivers and roads, to prevent infected badgers from roaming in or out of the cull zone.
A stream that lies just 1. 5 kilometres from the Hube Global plant flows into the Nakdong River,
Kwok-Yung Yuen, an infectious-disease expert at the University of Hong kong, notes the proximity of the reported human cases to the Yangtze river delta
Aurora Photos/Alamyus waterways in bad shape More than half of US rivers and streams are in a poor environmental condition,
near the Iron Gate dam on the Klamath River in northern California), the breakdown of which saps water of the oxygen that aquatic life needs to survive."
River-diversion projects have caused the body of water, once the fourth-largest lake in the world, to lose about 90%of its volume in the past 50 years,
China s cordgrass plan is overkill On an island in Shanghai at the mouth of the Yangtze river in China,
In California s Central Valley, where farmers use water flowing from the Colorado river Basin for irrigation,
found in Brazil s Araguaia River basin, is the first such discovery in almost 100 Â years,
and probably diverged from similar South american river species more than 2 Â million years ago. About 1, 000 individuals may live in the Araguaia River basin, the scientists estimate.
Antihydrogen made Physicists have produced a stream of antihydrogen atoms for the first time. Members of the Atomic Spectroscopy And Collisions Using Slow Antiprotons experiment at CERN,
says Nathan Stephenson, an ecologist at the US Geological Survey in Three Rivers, California, and the first author of the study, which appears today in Nature1."
Amy George/USGSCARP invasion Asian carp that have run amok in the rivers of the midwestern United states are spawning farther north in the Mississippi river than previously recorded,
USGS scientists found embryos (pictured) of bigheaded carp about to hatch in the river running through Lynxville, Wisconsin.
Water returns to arid Colorado river deltaone of North america s most iconic rivers is about to undergo an unprecedented experiment in ecological engineering.
The goal is to dampen broad swathes of the arid Colorado river delta for the first time in decades,
300-kilo  metre course (see River run). Before the 1930s, when dams began to throttle the river,
its water ran unfettered into the Gulf of california. But most was diverted soon to slake the thirst and agricultural fields of millions of people in the American Southwest.
A 1944 international treaty granted Mexico just 10%of the river s original flow; vast delta wetlands shrivelled to patches of vegetation clinging to sandy plains.
That is less than 1%of the river s average annual flow, but it is still significant,
says Francisco Zamora Arroyo, director of the Colorado river Delta Legacy Program at the Sonoran Institute in Tucson, Arizona."
Shafroth helped to lead related experiments on a Colorado river tributary, the Bill Williams River in Arizona, in 2005 and 2006.
Found mostly in warm freshwater lakes rivers and hotsprings Naegleria fowleri can travel up a person's nose
It now washes down a river into the sea settles to the bottom and compresses for centuries.
--and the other tools of survey (for the ancients were more than anything else manically obsessed with the measurement of the land especially the ancient Egyptians who were worried forever about the River Nile flooding its banks
The waters rivers lakes. For the environment. For..the dodo. Does not have to memorable so stop waiting for the approval of your peers.
When beavers build a dam impeding the natural flow of water the river begins to overflow more often creating a sediment-rich wetland area known as a beaver meadow.
I suppose the new plant growth in the area previously covered by the river could offset that
And do we even have the room for them on our rivers and streams? And could that land be used instead in better more efficient ways?
since the food chain in rivers/oceans would be disrupted by the end of photosynthesis so even canned tuna/salmon would be used up within a few weeks.
For all that lived there it was WORMWOOD Rev 8: 11 the wood became full of worms and the rivers water no longer sweet and undrinkable.
Rainfall and rivers all carry water back into the ground and in some areas the local government even pumps water underground in an effort to maintain their aquifers.
and rivers has dried up. Yet strangely the earth's sea levels have not risen enough to account for all of this lost freshwater.
but trucks were banned north of Toms River.)They found plenty of willing partners among the farmers of Monmouth Burlington and Ocean counties.
Frank Fernicola followed his father into the drum business working first in Newark and then Toms River where his clients included Toms River Chemical.
but had to give up his hauling permit after he was convicted in the late 1960s of illegally dumping chemical drums at the old Manchester Township landfill about ten miles west of Toms River.
He hauled sodium waste from a North Jersey chemical plant to Beachwood just south of Toms River
In 1966 when he was followed 31 he his brother south to Toms River running a gas station for a few years
When he returned to Toms River Nick Fernicola bounced through a series of construction jobs:
Toms River Chemical and the Lakehurst Naval Air station. Its wooden tables and stools would fill up at the four o'clock shift change and again at midnight.
and had worked friends who at the company's huge chemical plant on the Raritan River about 60 miles north in the town of Bound Brook.
The two men (Fernicola would later claim to investigators that he never knew their real names) worked at the Dover Township Municipal Landfill the town dump for Toms River.
When Fernicola carried his first load to Toms River on April 1 a low-level manager at Union carbide followed him to confirm that he was dumping at the town landfill.
Excerpted from Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation Copyright 2013 Dan Fagin. Excerpted by permission of Bantam Books a division of Random House Inc. All rights reserved.
My late father was born in Toms River; he died young from a brain tumor despite his being a healthy nonsmoking teetotaler.
Chinese officials have fished more than 16000 pig carcasses from the Huangpu River from which more than one in five Shanghai residents draw their drinking water.
It's important to note that none of the experts we found work in the Huangpu directly nor have done they their own testing of the Huangpu River.
and from their own work on other Chinese rivers.)It is possible that the drinking water in Shanghai is still fine they say.
However government agencies have not been transparent about how often they've tested the river and what exactly they mean
when they say they've returned the river to normal says Kristen Macdonald the China program director for Pacific Environment a non-governmental organization.
The Huangpu River system is large and continually flowing so it can clear impurities quickly Jun Shentu a staff member at Green Zhejiang a group that focuses on tributaries of the Huangpu says in an email.
Tap water in Shanghai is taken from near the center of the river at the bottom where the water quality is better Shentu says.
In addition officials may not actually know exactly to what level of quality to return the river
Although they offer daily updates on the Huangpu's water quality Chinese officials haven't explained why farmers have chosen recently against regulations to dump so many pigs into the river the Guardian reported March 22.
So it's definitely a case of there being a regulatory gap where it's not clear who is responsible for dealing with protecting rivers from this kind of dumping.
and they don't want to spend money to properly dispose of the pigs the farmers dump the pigs in the river.
(which is located on a river delta) has soft clay-heavy soil. So before lifting a single steel beam engineers drove 980 foundation piles into the ground as deep as 282 feet.
In 2009 US AIRWAYS flight 1549 made a crash landing in the Hudson river after geese knocked out both engines.
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For all that lived there it was WORMWOOD Rev 8: 11 the wood became full of worms and the rivers water no longer sweet and undrinkable.
To test his equipment he took some photos of the Trinity River with a point
A crimson stream which appeared to be blood leaking into a river tributary. The pilot whose name has not been released notified Texas environmental authorities who launched an investigation.
what to the bloody river discovery. Had the Dallas hobbyist not been taking pictures of the river
--which as Gooden pointed out is a public waterway--he never would have seen the illegal activity.
About two weeks after the bloody river discovery an animal rights group flew a microdrone above private property in South carolina aiming to film what they said was a live pigeon shoot.
or something but invasion of privacy when it comes to illegally dumping chemicals into a river/creek
a hobbyist inadvertently obtained photo's of a river being polluted and now some lawyer wants to make these hobbyist drones illegal.
and that polluted river is public. For some reason I am thinking that lawyer may represent some questionable characters
and across freezing rivers moms being separated from their calves or not even allowed to fully give birth.
and impounding rushing rivers in an effort to throw two great oceans together. It is the greatest assault ever made upon nature;
and if you get too close to the river you can sink knee-deep. Luckily when this happened to me Pomerantz was there to lend a hand.
since recordkeeping for the Colorado river began in 1906 and Lake Mead is now more than half empty.
Between 2004 and 2013 the average flow of water from the Glen Canyon Dam just upstream from the Lower Colorado river Basin was 8. 88 million acre-feet.
This year for the first time in decades 1 percent of the annual flow was released to nourish the river s long-dried delta.
But it s impossible to forget that this is also an act of desperation a last-gasp attempt to keep water flowing from a river that at many spots has already become more a trickle than a torrent.
From its headwaters in the Rockies the Colorado river meanders 1400 miles through five states and into Mexico nourishing 40 million people and irrigating 5. 5 million acres of farmland along the way.
Despite decades of subsequent development the water rights first established by the Colorado river Compact in 1922 remain essentially unchanged today.
The agreement allocates 15 million acre-feet each year (picture an acre of land covered with a foot-high layer of water) among the seven Colorado river Basin states:
currently the river can t come close to meeting demand. Climate will exacerbate the problem. Rainfall in the Colorado Basin could decrease 15 percent in the next 50 years.
The Colorado river is grossly overallocated says Peter Gleick a water expert with the Pacific Institute in Oakland California. ve given away more water than nature provides.
The 16.5-million figure was based on just two decades of Colorado river flow. Over the century spanning from 1906 to 2005 the average freshwater in-put to the system was actually only 15 million acre-feet.
If climate change continues to dry out the region Barnett found in a 2009 study Colorado river water deliveries could fall short 60 to 90 percent of the time by midcentury.
Las vegas began ticketing errant water users in 2002 the driest year in recorded history on the Colorado river.
I pay about three times that much for the same Colorado river water in Los angeles. Las vegas is in the middle of the desert in the middle of a drought in the midst of a population boom driven by retirees who want to replicate their East Coast gardens in the Mojave.
Inside the connector tunnel sandbags separate a foot-and-a-half-deep river of water from the active construction zone;
Further north citizens have engaged in a heated debate over an estimated $15 billion project to dig two tunnels under the Sacramento an Joaquin Delta plan that would improve delivery of river water fed by Sierra nevada snowpack
but the same week I was in Las vegas Facebook friends posted triumphant selfies of themselves floating through two feet of fresh powder at Colorado ski resorts By April it was clear big parts of the Colorado river watershed
#Colorado river Delta To Get Colorado river Water For First time In Yearsdampen is the right word for it.
Later this month officials plan to release water from the Colorado river into the river's delta.
Since the 1930s successive dam projects have held back the river so that folks in the U s. and Mexico can use Colorado water for drinking farming and everything else.
It represents less than 1 percent of the river's annual flow. Nevertheless scientists think that even this amount of water alculated to mimic days of light spring flooding from the time before dams ill help.
The goal is to dampen broad swathes of the arid Colorado river delta Nature News'Alexandra Witze writes allowing new cottonwood
For centuries residents of Guiyu s four villages had scratched out a living farming rice along the Lianjiang River.
Others acid-stripped circuit boards in caustic baths near the river to salvage bits of gold. No one wore protective clothing.
Yet their population extends thousands of feet all the way down the north slope of Mount Hood to the often wet foggy Columbia river Gorge
The river there is only about 150 feet above sea level. In the gorge--which runs roughly 30 miles east-to-west--these American pikas--Ochotona princeps--live among the rocks on moss-covered talus slopes.
In cooperation with the Oregon Zoo and local wildlife agencies Varner has helped begin a citizen science program in the Columbia river Gorge so local hikers can help monitor the pikas.
and river flooding in the future. What they found was:#¢#¢The frequency of drought may increase by more than 20 per cent in some regions.#¢
#¢Increases in river flooding are expected in more than half of the areas investigated.#¢#¢Adverse climate change impacts can combine to create global'hotspots'of climate change impacts.
For the project--'Intersectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISI-MIP)'-Dr Gosling contributed simulations of global river flows to help understand how climate change might impact on global droughts water scarcity and river flooding.
while river flooding could decrease by the end of the century across about a third of the globe increases are expected at more than half of the areas investigated under a high greenhouse gas emissions scenario.
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