Water

- A plan to build a 735-foot, $5.2 billion dam, would generate up to 600 megawatts of electricity and create a new power supply for more than two-thirds of the state’s population.

Posted on March 8th, 2013
Energy, 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.

Posted on January 7th, 2013
Disasters, Water

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