October 15, 2013
Gaming the system in the Caspian Sea: Can game theory solve a decades-old dispute?
Water-rights disputes are never easy. Whether they are over pumping from aquifers shared among adjacent landowners, allocation of resources at …
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June 13, 2013
The energy-water nexus: Managing water in an energy-constrained world
Water can be tricky. With too little, crops die, industries move away, power plants fail, ecosystems suffer and people go thirsty. With too much, …
October 14, 2012
Sun provides water to the moon?
Until recently, the consensus in the scientific community was that the moon was bone-dry. Scientists thought that the massive impact responsible …
June 20, 2012
Neutralizing the rain: After much success in the battle against acid rain, challenges remain
Every Tuesday at 9 a.m., Dave Warner collects water from a white plastic 3.5-gallon tub that sits on a strip of tall grass between two cornfields …
January 5, 2012
West Virginia Coal: Dirty water, dirtier politics - but will there be a cleaner future?
Coal has always been king in West Virginia. For more than 250 years, the mining industry has ruled the Mountain State, sometimes running …
January 5, 2012
Venus' gentler, Earth-like past
Today, the surface of Venus is a hellhole, seared by scorching temperatures, crushing pressures and a toxic atmosphere of carbon dioxide with …
January 5, 2012
Travels in Geology: Chesapeake Bay, from impact craters to executive orders
The lower part of the Chesapeake Bay offers more than crab cakes and boating. Today, the bay is central to one of country’s largest environmental …
January 5, 2012
Toxic tide
In the Gulf of Mexico lurk menacing masses of single-celled organisms known as red tides. Scientists have long known that the potent toxin they …
January 5, 2012
Thirsty Cities: Water management in a changing environment
On a clear day in November 2007, the governor of Georgia held an unusual public vigil. Before the doors of his state capitol, Gov. Sonny Perdue …
January 5, 2012
Strategies to meet our water and energy needs: Insight from a Texas "Treemap"
"This is our generation’s Sputnik moment," declared President Barack Obama in the 2011 State of the Union address, challenging the nation to …
January 5, 2012
Sea sprawl: Into the blue frontier of ocean development
Picture it: Dozens of kilometers off the coast of Texas, a giant polygon-shaped cage constructed of steel ribs and mesh netting floats 30 or so …
January 5, 2012
Science and soccer: They're both child's play
It’s late in the afternoon, and by now, 9-year-old Claire Dworsky has already answered questions like mine many times over. But, when I approach …
January 5, 2012
Saving Energy and Water Through Superior Sanitation
Have you ever thought about using your urine to fertilize your tomatoes and cucumbers? Full of nutrients like phosphorus, potassium and nitrogen, …
January 5, 2012
Rewriting rivers: What it means for river restoration
In 1702, Francis Chadsey and his family bought 200 hectares of meadow and upland on the banks of the Brandywine Creek in southeastern …
January 5, 2012
Rebuilding Afghanistan
Ravaged by war, drought and natural hazards such as earthquakes and landslides, Afghanistan’s people face many challenges. But the country also …
January 5, 2012
Raindrop study splashes old assumptions
Predicting the weather has been central to human civilization since the Babylonians started studying cloud patterns in 650 B.C. The key to …
January 5, 2012
NASA's LCROSS crashes on the moon
Blogging on EARTH Usually, NASA hopes its space probes land safely at their destinations. This morning, the agency was planning for a big …
January 5, 2012
Moon much wetter than thought
The moon isn’t quite the bone-dry place scientists once thought; instead, its surface is covered in water, according to a landmark finding …
January 5, 2012
Mississippi Delta drowning
The Mississippi River Delta is arguably the most geologically (and politically) dynamic delta in the United States. Subsidence, sedimentation, …
January 5, 2012
Mining for iron oxides in coal mine sludge
The billions of tons of coal that miners extracted from Pennsylvania’s ground over the past two centuries have long gone up in smoke, but their …
January 5, 2012
Mars' ice is pure, not dirty
Blogging on EARTH Finding signs of water on Mars feels nearly old hat by now. We know Mars had a lot more water in its past, has polar ice …
January 5, 2012
Mapping safer drinking water
Beginning in the 1970s, international aid agencies dug hundreds of thousands of wells in Bangladesh to help people access clean drinking water. …
January 5, 2012
Lack of water threatens "Garden of Eden"
Since the downfall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, Iraqis and scientists from around the world have been working hard to restore Iraq’s once-lush …
January 5, 2012
June 9, 1938: Huang He Diversion: Largest Act of Environmental Warfare in History
The Huang He (Yellow River) has been called “China’s Sorrow.” The name pays tribute to the millions killed by the river’s churning, muddy waters …