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News tag: Environment

Environment news

Compare and contrast: Pacific island water security requires new approach

EurekAlert! Hydrology experts at Flinders University are calling for urgent investigations into the operation of bore-fields that access fresh groundwater on Pacific islands, including Kiribati, where rising sea levels are […]

Compare and contrast: Stantec joins $800M Mojave Desert water project

Construction Dive Design and engineering firm Stantec will oversee development and construction of the $800 million Mojave Groundwater Bank project in California’s Mojave Desert, water company Cadiz announced at the […]

Compare and contrast: A 500-cubic-metre oil spill is still tainting lives in this Hungarian town

EuroNews Green After nearly 500 cubic metres of oil spilled from an old pipe, locals are demanding compensation and accountability from the Hungarian oil company.   Click here to read […]

Compare and contrast: Microplastics Lurk in Freshwater Environments Across Pennsylvania

Inside Climate News Penn State scientists found microplastics dating back to the 1950s buried in the sediments of a river, two creeks and a lake. The data shows that freshwater […]

Compare and contrast: Building Climate Resilience through Nature-Based Infrastructure in Drakenstein, South Africa

IISD Together with local partners and C40 Cities Finance Facility, we developed a Sustainable Asset Valuation (SAVi) to assess the benefits of investing in NBI in river sub-catchments between the […]

Compare and contrast: The Great British Sewage Dump

Reuters Widespread sewage spills contaminate Britain’s waterways and hit the broader economy.   Click here to read the story.

Compare and contrast: Ditches and canals are a big, yet overlooked, source of greenhouse gas emissions – new study

The Conversation – United Kingdom Researchers have previously calculated that ditches emit up to 3% of the total global methane emissions from human activities. In our new study, we find […]

Compare and contrast: EPA likely to move to further limit federal protections for wetlands

The Associated Press The Trump administration on Wednesday announced it will reconsider the reach of the nation’s bedrock clean water law and likely further limit the wetlands it covers, building […]

Compare and contrast: How climate change affects rain and floods

Science Daily Climate change may lead to more precipitation and more intense floods. A new study shows that to understand the details of this relationship, it is important to distinguish […]

Yukon government continues work on removing lead from drinking water at 24 schools, programs

CBC Twenty-four schools and associated buildings in the Yukon have at least one drinking water source that exceeds the national guideline for maximum lead concentration, according to recent testing results. […]

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