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Environmental News Network -- Know Your Environment
An eight-year study of Boston’s natural gas system has revealed that emissions of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, are significantly higher than previously estimated.
A partnership between county officials and Texas A&M AgriLife is producing tons of fresh food for local shelters.
Rivers flowing from the Tibetan Plateau and the surrounding high Asian mountains which support one-third of the world’s population have experienced rapid increases in annual water and sediment runoff since the 1990s, and the volume of sediment washed downstream could more than double by 2050 under the worst-case scenario, a team of scientists has found.
Tropical cyclones (TC) have a serious impact on economy and social life and thus has drawn considerable public concern.
It takes about 8500 years for a grain of sand from the Andes to be washed across the Argentine lowlands into the Río Paraná.
A team of scientists, including experts from the University of Adelaide, suggest that reliance on modern irrigation technologies as a water-use efficiency strategy is a ‘zombie idea’ – one that persists no matter how much evidence is thrown against it.
