Politics

Water on Earth is becoming rare.

Thinking we can walk on water, we’ll soon discover that conservation is a big issue for both groundwater and river flow rates, unless that is, the water has already left...

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Public participation and environmental monitoring compared

In the south of Uzbekistan, where most white Eurasian storks (Ciconia ciconia) migrating from the Indian subcontinent breed, the contamination from TALCO is affecting many native birds such as duck,...

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Scenes of Reason:climate change and video information

Green Eye image; Credit: © Shutterstockimage Leading up to Earth Hour on Saturday, Scenes of Reason have some explanatory videos for you, explaining a lot about environmental issues such as...

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Gorillas or oil: the Virunga question

No, they ain’t all dead yet. These guys are just hanging out together as mountain gorillas do when they’re just plumb-full of food and fed up with tourists watching them!...

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Human epoch or just invasive hominid species?

Before the Mayflower, there were even smaller ships---. Maybe we should call our epoch the New Carboniferous, or get rid of the Holocene. When did the Anthropocene start? Well, nobody...

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Report on a better Aral Sea

The key to the water problems in the south of the Aral Sea is this “river.” The ancient Amu Darya was full-flowing and provided vast cotton fields recently with their...

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Mekong is almost a stagnant pond!

Could this be the final sunset on the mighty Mekong? In Luang Prabang, they are used to negotiating the wide river for fishing, transport and the rest, but how many...

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Fossil divestments trend is killing coal.

The history of fossil fuel stretches back further than we can remember, but the delightful ladies of 1910 are rarely remembered as coal miners in Europe, where advanced coal mining...

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