Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2022 19:00:43 +0000
An island that once covered 35 square miles has less than 1 square mile remaining. The island’s population, mostly French-speaking American Indians and their descendants, has fallen from 325 to just a dozen in 20 years.
Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2022 17:00:25 +0000
As more electric vehicles crowd into the market, one startup is looking to stand out with an onboard water-making system.
Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2022 04:12:00 +0000
While hydropower provides about 16% of global electricity generation today, climate change is predicted to drive various changes in hydrology that could translate into a spectrum of risks for hydropower production. A recent study published in the journal Water estimates 61% of all global hydropower dams will be in basins with very high or extreme […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2022 13:30:40 +0000
Turlock Water & Power in California will test putting solar panels across some of its irrigation canals this year.
Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 13:11:30 +0000
Danger season in the United States is the time of year between roughly May and October when a number of climate-related hazards, including heatwaves, floods, wildfires, and hurricanes, tend to occur — at times simultaneously or back-to-back. Climate change is making many of these events more frequent, intense, and/or longer-lasting, and as a result, more […]
Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2022 08:00:11 +0000
A menu of adaptation actions to help practitioners move from general concepts to tangible, targeted adaptation tactics for their system
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2022 10:00:21 +0000
We recently got an e-mail tip from a reader, who will not be named, and for reasons that will soon be obvious. It read: “Golf courses and water parks perpetuate the illusion that there’s NO water shortage. sHut them all!” While it’s fun to make fun of typos and strange capitalization as if this was […]
Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2022 17:30:47 +0000
Continuously tracking how and why sea level is changing is an important part of informing plans for adaptation. Our ability to monitor and understand the individual factors that contribute to sea level rise allows us to track sea level changes in a way that has never before been possible.
Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2022 14:21:18 +0000
To further the potential benefits of the nation’s hydropower resources, researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed and maintain a comprehensive water energy digital platform called HydroSource that informs key stakeholders of development and operational costs, environmental concerns and licensing requirements. Hydropower accounts for nearly 7% of all electricity generated in the United States and provides […]
Credit to Author: NRDC| Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2022 09:50:28 +0000
Across the United States, the majority of states lack laws that require flood damages be fully disclosed to home buyers. The consequences can be financially ruinous to those who unwittingly purchase a flood-prone home. States that don’t require disclosure of flood risks, or have inadequate disclosure requirements, hurt those with future flood damages. Why wouldn’t a state […]