Water
Cockermouth poets tell a watery tale
- More than 80 ways of looking in verse at floods, torrents, waterspouts, seas, rain - and a faraway desert.
Posted on
February 20th, 2013
Water
Mussels with backpacks monitor Mississippi’s health
Originally Published by New Scientist - River mussels wearing tiny sensor backpacks could help monitor the Mississippi for dangerous pollutants.
Posted on
January 21st, 2013
Biodiversity, Technology, Water
SAR imagery reveals Lake Superior coastal eddies
- For the first time, spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) has been used to detect small spiral eddies in a freshwater lake.
Posted on
January 19th, 2013
Earth Observation, Water
The Great Canal of China
Originally Published by IEEE Spectrum - The South-to-North Water Diversion Project will realize an old dream of Mao Zedong: to bring water from monsoon-swept lands, where it’s plentiful, to the north’s booming industrial cities, where it’s not.
Posted on
January 11th, 2013
Water
Fighting development in floodplains
- The most effective flood-protection measures have proven to be strict rules on reconstruction and bans on new buildings.
Himalayan dam-building threatens endemic species
Originally Published by New Scientist - The Himalayas, the world's highest mountain range, may soon hold another record: it could become home to the greatest density of dams in the world.
Posted on
December 23rd, 2012
Biodiversity, Water
Riverbeds in Reverse
- Inverted river channels in central Utah look similar to features on Mars — a clue that liquid water use to flow on the Red Planet in abundance.
Posted on
December 4th, 2012
Earth Observation, Water
Rita Colwell: Keeping Her Aim on Cholera
When cholera killed hundreds living in coastal towns and epidemics were linked with sea travel, newspaper cartoons at the turn of the century depicted the disease as a ferocious sea monster poised to attack fishermen resting on the docks. Today, the disease is still a scourge that claims hundreds of thousands of lives in developing countries every year.
Catherine M. Cooney, posted on
November 28th, 2012
Featured Person, Health, People, Water
Thirst for groundwater caused fatal earthquake
Originally Published by New Scientist - If a quake in Spain was triggered by long-term use of groundwater for farming, it gives us clues to why some quakes occur and how to manage their effects
Posted on
October 22nd, 2012
Agriculture, Disasters, Water
A Mississippi river diversion helped build Louisiana wetlands, Penn geologists find
- A team of University of Pennsylvania geologists and others used the occasion of the Mississippi River flood of the spring of 2011 to observe how floodwaters deposited sediment in the Mississippi Delta.
Posted on
October 22nd, 2012
Ecosystems, Water
NASA Daily Image
Hubble Sees 'Space Invader' Image