A giant underwater “dead zone” in the Chesapeake Bay is growing at an alarming rate because of unusually high nutrient pollution levels this year, according to Virginia and Maryland officials. They said the expanding area of oxygen-starved water is on track to become the bay’s largest ever. The Article
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Alarming ‘Dead Zone’ Grows in Chesapeake Bay
Posted in Water on July 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Global Water
Posted in Business, Climate Change, Water on June 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A report from Brown Advisory, a Baltimore money management firm, on global water and the business of global water. Report
The Status of U.S. Fish Habitat 2010
Posted in Ecosystem Service Information, Food, Water on May 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
http://fishhabitat.org/images/documents/fishhabitatreport_012611.pdf
Dead Zones
Posted in Energy, Food, Water on August 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This morning National Public Radio reported on the rapid expansion of global marine ‘dead zones’ in the past thirty years. In order to better understand this problem: What is a “Dead Zone?”
T. Boone Pickens and Water
Posted in Energy, Water on July 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A friend, Stas Antons, just commented on investments T. Boone Pickens has been making in water rights and wind power. The water rights article: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_25/b4089040017753.htm?chan=search The alternative energy article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/08/t-boone-pickens-unveils-n_n_111444.html
Vegetarianism and Water
Posted in Food, Living Things, Water on July 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I am not a vegetarian…but eat almost no meat and, perhaps stupidly, have not thought much about the environmental impacts of meat production. I just received an email pointing out the following post: I’ve been vegetarian since 1982. I attended my first anti-vivisection protest in the spring of 1985 at UC San Diego, when anti-apartheid demonstrations were [...]
