Resources for Keeping our Planet Blue
Surface water -- like lakes, rivers, and reservoirs -- is one major source of our drinking water. Groundwater is another. The surface water comes from precipitation, like rain and melting snow and …
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Science Magazine sponsors live chats on important scientific topics and this week the topic is “Saving the Earth's Water Supply”. As regular readers of this blog know, only one percent of Earth's …
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Amphibians as a group are declining in numbers. A number of reasons are behind this decline. Among those reasons is agricultural pesticide and herbicide use. Dr. Tyrone Hayes has been on the front …
Current laws penalize the owners of water rights, reducing incentives to conserve. Rob Harmon has an idea for how the market can keep streams flowing. Water rights are usually awarded to the people …
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Healthy frogs means healthy humans. Jean-Marc Hero, a vertebrate ecologist specializing in conservation biology of amphibians, biodiversity assessment and monitoring, and conservation physiology …
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One thousand dead ducks have been found dumped in the Nanhe River in Sichuan Province in China. The Nanhe River is not used for drinking water, so the worry is not quite as severe as the dead pigs …
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