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    Archives: Water
    • Yale Climate Connection, May 14, 2021

      Posted by Bill on June 5, 2021
      Climate Crisis, Financial Implications, Health, Sea Level Rise, Studies Reports Tools, Water

      Articles include: Silent calamity: The health impacts of wildfire smoke; White House adviser and environmental justice advocate Catherine Coleman Flowers; Climate change increases renters’ risks; Why are there so many Atlantic named storms? Five possible explanations; Heavier downpours strain septic systems in some rural areas; […]


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    • The Western Drought Is Bad. Here’s What You Should Know About It.

      Posted by Bill on June 5, 2021
      Climate Crisis, Food Production, Water

      New York Times: The Western Drought Is Bad. Here’s What You Should Know About It. Answers to questions about the current situation in California and the Western half of the United States.

      Much of the Western half of the United States is in the grip of a severe drought […]


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    • Studies: Plastics and oceans – 4 articles

      Posted by Bill on May 9, 2021
      Activists, Climate Crisis, Plastics, Studies Reports Tools, Toxic Waste, Water

      Futurity: DISCARDED COVID MASKS AND GLOVES ARE REALLY BAD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT. When it comes to COVID-19 masks, gloves, and disinfectants, the transformation from protection to pollution happens quickly, but the damage can last for centuries.

      Vox: Why 99% of ocean plastic pollution is “missing”. A lot of it is […]


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    • The Daily Climate, April 27, 2021

      Posted by Bill on April 27, 2021
      Air Pollution, Climate Crisis, Denialism, Food Production, GHGs, including methane, International, Laws Regulations, Studies Reports Tools, Water, Weather vs Climate

      Articles include: California drought; underreporting GHGs; weather station in the Andes; 26,000 snakes; tools: graphics and climate change; deforesting Brazil; EPA and California air standards; pandemic and snow melt in SE Asia.


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    • Report: As a hotter, drier climate grips the Colorado River, water risks grow across the Southwest

      Posted by Bill on April 27, 2021
      Climate Crisis, Studies Reports Tools, Water

      Arizona Central: As a hotter, drier climate grips the Colorado River, water risks grow across the Southwest. The water level of Lake Mead, the country’s largest reservoir, has dropped more than 130 feet since the beginning of 2000, when the lake’s surface lapped at the spillway gates on Hoover […]


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    • Why the intense U.S. drought is now a megadrought

      Posted by Bill on April 24, 2021
      Climate Crisis, Water, Weather vs Climate

      Mashable: Why the intense U.S. drought is now a megadrought.

      Climate 101 is a Mashable series that answers provoking and salient questions about Earth’s warming climate.

      The water keeps going down.

      Almost the entire Southwest is mired in various stages of drought as of April 21, 2021, resulting in falling water […]


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    • Above the Fold – Children’s News, April 22, 2021

      Posted by Bill on April 23, 2021
      Air Pollution, Chemicals Pesticides Fertilizers, Climate Crisis, Health, International, Studies Reports Tools, Toxic Waste, Water

      Articles include: Report: Lead in Pennsylvania water; tougher air pollution limits needed; Report: climate’s impact on children’s health and justice; Report: dogs and human fertility; Study: father’s drinking and children’s health; North Pole pollution; lead pipes in Buffalo, NY; climate change guide for kids;
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    • There Are Massive Chemical Dumps In The Gulf We Know Almost Nothing About

      Posted by Bill on April 23, 2021
      Chemicals Pesticides Fertilizers, Toxic Waste, US Government Agencies, Water

      Huffington Post: There Are Massive Chemical Dumps In The Gulf We Know Almost Nothing About. In the 1970s, the EPA allowed chemical companies to dump toxic waste into the deep sea. Now, oil giants are drilling right on top of it.

      Seventy miles off the coast of Louisiana, among a maze of […]


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    • State Water Control Board turns down ‘speculative’ water permit request

      Posted by Bill on April 21, 2021
      Laws Regulations, Water

      Virginia Mercury: State Water Control Board turns down ‘speculative’ water permit request.

      The Virginia State Water Control Board last week denied a proposal by the owners of Cranston’s Mill Pond in James City County to withdraw millions of gallons of water per day to sell to potential buyers, drawing a hard […]


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    • Above the Fold – Week’s Best & Covid

      Posted by Bill on April 17, 2021
      Chemicals Pesticides Fertilizers, Coal and Coal Ash, Food Production, Health, International, Nuclear, Toxic Waste, Water, Websites

      Environmental Health News puts out weekend ‘summary’ emails, in addition to their daily emails.

      EHN Week’s Best: April 16, 2021: forever chemicals on paper straws; Piney Point pollution; jails and environmental justice; DDT; PFAS; drought’s impact on farming water;  rechargeable batteries – real cost; Mexico and coal; heavy metals […]


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