Exploding Aardvark

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RADIO: CLIMATE AND FOOD PRODUCTION

Recommended listening, if you live on Earth. (It’s about half an hour long.)

You can’t see it and you can’t feel it, but ozone, one of the greenhouse gases associated with climate change, is causing a decrease of 20% to the soya crop in the United States of America.
Soya is the second biggest crop in the […]

WORRY NO MORE!

“Where we put our dollars is the difference between human extinction and an exciting new eco-lifestyle!”

Greensumption (YouTube, via getpost)

WATER RAGE

A man has been killed in a fight over watering his lawn in drought-stricken Australia in an apparent case of water rage.

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Q And one more. You mentioned that there are health benefits to climate change. Could you describe some of those?
MS. PERINO: Sure. In some cases, there are — look, this is an issue where I’m sure lots of people would love to ridicule me when I say this, but it is true that many people […]

SLOWMERGENCY

The response to the worst drought on record in the Southeast has unfolded in ultra-slow motion. All summer, more than a year after the drought began, fountains sprayed and football fields were watered, prisoners got two showers a day and Coca-Cola’s bottling plants chugged along at full strength. On an 81-degree day this month, an […]

THE QUEEN OF THE MAY IS ALREADY HERE

Experts from the trust have verified public sightings of hawthorn flowers in hedgerows right across the UK, although typically they are not expected to appear until around May 11.
The sight of swifts flying across the south-east and Gloucestershire over the past few days also suggests the seasons are out of kilter; traditionally the birds return […]

WATER WARS

As the world warms, water — either too little or too much of it — is going to be the major problem for the United States, scientists and military experts said Monday. It will be a domestic problem, with states clashing over controls of rivers, and a national security problem as water shortages and floods […]

IT SUCKS TO BE THE WATER CONTROLLER

Abdullah Khan baulks at calls to serve another term as mirab — the water controller — in this farming hamlet of Damana, on the parched plains south of Kabul.
In villages where the small man is grist to the mill of warlords and corrupt police, the mirab is a pivot of power, protecting the jealously guarded […]

DAFFY SOLUTION

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of plastic daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
With apologies to William Wordsworth.

The Lake District is famous at this time of year for its amazing displays of daffodils, especially thanks […]

ALL WET?

For World Water Day, Bruce Murphy puts US water use into perspective.

Stephen Grigory, a San Antonio-based piping consultant, estimates that in his area “each time a golfer plays a round of golf it takes between 2,200 and 3,500 gallons of water to support his game based on golf course average water use.” San Antonio’s 56 […]