Tag: Rivers - Page 5
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Missouri Accidentally Bans Tupperware from its Waterways
Photo: GregPC via Flickr Are you thinking of taking your family rafting near the Ozarks this Labor Day? Well, you’d better leave your Tupperware at home. A poorly written Missouri law has mistakenly banned polypropylene from most of the state’s
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Improving Efficiency at Washington's Hydropower Projects Could Boost Output 3x More Than Building New Dams
The environmental problems with large-scale hydropower are well documented, with small-scale hydro often seen as a more benign way to exploit the power of rivers for electricity. However, as the Wall Street Journal
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Green Prophet's Top 7 Mideast Eco-Tourism Spots
From historic rivers to the world's largest desalination plant, from a futuristic city to a 100-year-old tree-planting
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Black Sea Floods a Not-So-Natural Disaster
Devastating floods in the eastern Black Sea region of Turkey have inundated hundreds of homes and businesses, blocked roads, cut utility services, caused millions of Turkish Liras
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Turkmenistan Starts Building New Desert Sea: Glorious Deed or Disaster Waiting to Happen?
The Aral Sea, Central Asia's most (in)famous body of water, has become a global symbol of environmental mismanagement. But at least one government in the region doesn't seem to have
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Ganges River Dolphin Populations Decline, Face New Threats From Oil Exploration
The Irrawaddy dolphin may be doing better than previously thought, but another of South Asia's dolphins isn't doing so well at all. Mongabay points out that a new report by the IUCN says that the Ganges
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5 Documentaries You Must See to Understand the Water Crisis
There's a lot to know about the world's water crisis--as you can tell from the month of posts we've been doing on just this one topic. But if you're new to the discussion, catch up in one weekend with these five
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China's Hydroelectric Plans to Damn the Mekong Threaten Millions
A few short weeks ago it came out the China had plans in the works to place 20 hydroelectric dams on the upper
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World's Nastiest Lakes and Rivers (Slideshow)
Before you go dipping your toes in the first lake or river you come across this summer, make sure it's not on our list of the world's dirtiest lakes and rivers.
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Good News For One Of Our Nation's Chronically Endangered Rivers.
The lower Snake River has landed on our America’s Most Endangered Rivers list seven times because of the threat posed by four outdated dams.
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Iceland is the Success Story of Sustainable Fishing
The soon-to-be-released documentary, The End of the Line, is about the terrible damage to the world's fishing stocks due to overfishing. But we do have one successful model of sustainable fishing: feisty little Iceland.
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Are We Wishfully Seeing Green in Supreme Court Nominee Sotomayor?
Immediately after word came out that Sonia Sotomayor was the President's pick for the Supreme Court, the environmental community (this author included) immediately went searching for the green angle. We found it in one decision: Riverkeeper v. EPA, which
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How Green is Obama Supreme Court Nominee Sonia Sotomayor?
With word coming in the President Obama has nominated Sonia Sotomayor to serve on the Supreme Court—if confirmed she'll be the first Hispanic person on the court.
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Fighting to Keep Ancient Turkish City from Becoming a Sunken Treasure
One of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities, the Turkish town of Hasankeyf, could see its cultural and natural richness lost by 2013, drowned in the reservoir for the Ilısu Dam, a controversial project that has lately drawn renewed attention.
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Scientists Say River Systems Take Second Fiddle in Nature Reserves
A new study shows that the conservation efforts that include the Iberian river basins are fragmented, and that fact is doing a lot of harm for the health of the rivers as a whole. They recommend that in order to help
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NRDC Offers Live Online Chat Discussing Beach Safety Tips
Heading out into the water this memorial day weekend? Well you have more to worry about lurking under that water than sharks, stingrays and jellyfish, and what we're talking about might stay with you long after you've left the
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Smokers, Treat Your Cigarette Butts as Toxic Waste (Video)
Smoking is not only bad for your health, but cigarette butts are equally as dangerous for the environment. That's the message from San Diego State University researcher Richard Gersberg, who has just completed a study examining the effects of discarded
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5 Green Fights For The Future of British Columbia
British Columbia (BC) is a fabulous place to live. The province's largest city, Vancouver, is consistently rated as one of the most livable cities in the world, and a visit to the fertile Fraser Valley and Gulf
