Archive for 'Water Conservation'
Nature Photo of the Week: Spawning Coho Salmon
This amazing shot by Flickr user “Soggydan” Dan Bennett of a leaping coho salmon in Issaquah Creek, Washington state was taken with a 60mm lens — which basically means the photographer could have reached out and touched this fish. Like we said — amazing! Thanks for sharing it through The Nature Conservancy’s Flickr Group, Soggydan!
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Posted: November 20th, 2009 under Fish, Nature Photo of the Week, The Nature Conservancy, United States, Water Conservation.
Tags: coho salmon, nature image, nature photo, Nature Photo of the Week, salmon leap photo, salmon photo, salmon spawn photo, Washington nature image, Washington nature photo
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Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, November 10
Generally, giving struggling species a helping hand is considered a good thing — like saving the vaquita porpoise and anything cute and cuddly (read: koalas). But there’s hot debate over whether helping plants migrate as climate change transforms their habitat is positive or not. Read on for the latest on these cool green topics, and more.
We’re [...]
Posted: November 10th, 2009 under Animals, Australia, Climate Change, Conservation Issues, Cool Green Morning, Energy, Oceans & Coasts, United States, Water Conservation.
Tags: assisted migration, Australia, Australia Koala Foundation, botanists, EPA, Gulf of California, habitat loss, Himalayas, India water supply, Kashmir glacier, koala, melting glacier, Mexico, plant relocation, receding glaciers, regulating emissions, saving species, trawling ban, U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, vaquita porpoise
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Cool Green Morning: Monday, November 9
That’s not lice causing that scratching on your head (at least, we hope not) — it’s just a lot of head scratchers in today’s hot green news roundup. Stop the itch of curiosity right here!
Now here’s a question that’s been keeping millions up at night! Which is greener: Going into the refrigerator for a bottle [...]
Posted: November 9th, 2009 under Animals, Carbon Markets, Climate Change, Cool Green Morning, Energy, Green Living, Policy, Science, United States, Water Conservation.
Tags: Ask Pablo, Bright Green Blog, carbon emissions, carbon price, CleanTechnica, Climate Change, climate change denial, climate change denier, Columbia University, communicating climate change, Copenhagen climate, energy conservation, greenhouse gases, Institute for Policy Integrity, Jeremy Hance, Mongabay, Obama, Obama endangered species, ozone hole, Richard Black, The Psychology of Climate Change Communication, Treehugger, Water conservation
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Cool Green Morning: Friday, November 6
U.S. fish stocks defecting to Canada? We can just see it now on Lou Dobbs Tonight…but remember where you heard it first — Cool, Green, Morning. Have a great weekend!
Seems fishy, but overall U.S. water consumption has declined in the past 25 years — despite a growing population and increasing water use. Huh? Tina Casey [...]
Posted: November 6th, 2009 under Climate Change, Cool Green Morning, Europe, Fish, Fresh Water, North America, Oceans & Coasts, Policy, United States, Water Conservation.
Tags: Atlantic fish, Barcelona climate, CleanTechnica, Climate Feedback, Coastal Resilience, coastal wetland, Copenhagen climate, Environmental Research Letters, fish migration, fish ocean warm, Glenn Beck, Grist, Grist Copenhagen, irrigation, Jeff Tollefson, Journal Watch Online, Kerry Boxer, Obama, Obama climate, power plant cooling, sea level rise, Tina Casey, Water conservation, Yale Environment 360
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Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, November 3
It’s Election Day in the United States — get out and vote! Then immediately get back on your smartphone and check out the hottest in online green this morning — including what might possibly be the best green name ever…
Mt. Kilimanjaro’s ice cap is disappearing — but is that climate change’s fault? Two research teams [...]
Posted: November 3rd, 2009 under Africa, Asia Pacific, Climate Change, Climate Science & Research, Cool Green Morning, Fresh Water, Green Living, Media, Science, Water Conservation.
Tags: Associated Press, carbon emissions, climate change survivor, Gaia Vince, glacier melt, green patriarch, Himalayan glacier, Kilimanjaro ice cap, Kilimanjaro melt, Laos, Nepal cabinet Everest, Orthodox green, Patriarch Bartholomew, The New York Times, Toto, Toto Africa, Treehugger, Washington Post, Yale Environment 360
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Cool Green Morning: Friday, October 30
What’s more frightening than more Americans getting their news from Jon Stewart than a newspaper? When Jon Stewart says putting giant reflective mirrors into space will slow climate change…and he means it! It’s real scary stuff, kids, so we put it last in this morning’s Coolness to give you a good fright for the weekend! [...]
Posted: October 30th, 2009 under Air Pollution, Birds, Climate Change, Climate Science & Research, Cool Green Morning, Energy, Media, Policy, Water Conservation.
Tags: air pollution global warming, bird extinction, bird threat, CleanTechnica, climate change bird, Climate Feedback, Copenhagen, EcoGeek, Freakonomics, global warming, Jon Stewart, Jon Stewart climate, Jon Stewart geoengineering, Journal Watch Online, Nature Reports Climate Change, Science air pollution, Science magazine, solar farm water, solar water, Steven Dubner, Steven Levitt, The Guardian, Todd Stern, Treehugger, wind turbine bird
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Cool Green Morning: Thursday, October 15
Marijuana causes drought, endangered species are expensive, and wetlands store carbon… who knew? Now you do, thanks to this morning’s round-up of Cool Green News links.
New data suggest that wetlands could store six times more carbon per acre than forests, leading some scientists and companies to consider wetlands restoration as the next shining hope for carbon offsets.
How much [...]
Posted: October 15th, 2009 under Animals, Carbon Markets, Climate Change, Conservation Issues, Cool Green Morning, Energy, Fish, Green Living, United States, Water Conservation.
Tags: California drought, carbon offsets, carbon sink, Chinook salmon, conservation spending, endangered species, gas leaks, say no to phonebooks, Terry Gosney, USFWS, wetlands restoration
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Fish and People on the Edge: Why the Zambezi River Looks OK, But Isn’t
How do you convince people that a river they’ve known their whole lives is not the river it once was…or could be?
That turned out to be my challenge last week, when I traveled to Zambia in support of The Nature Conservancy’s new project to restore the Zambezi River. After several days of meetings with our [...]
Posted: October 14th, 2009 under Africa, Animals, Conservation Issues, Ecosystem Services, Fish, Fresh Water, Protected Areas, Sustainable Livelihoods, The Nature Conservancy, Water Conservation.
Tags: Africa dam, dam management, dams, environmental flows, fishing, floodplain, Jeff Opperman, Lower Zambezi National Park, river health, Zambezi dam, Zambezi fishing, Zambezi overfishing, zambezi river, Zambia
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Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, October 14
If you’re anything like me, you can’t get your day started without your daily serving of Cool Green Morning. (Also, caffeine. Lots and lots of caffeine.) Read on to get your fix:
Big snakes are becoming a big problem, says the United States Geological Survey. The group just issued a report concluding that, should the Burmese [...]
Posted: October 14th, 2009 under Australia, Business, Climate Change, Cool Green Morning, Green Living, Green Technology, Invasive species, North America, Science, United States, Water Conservation.
Tags: Australia, Burmese Python, California, Climate Change, DotEarth, Environmental Capital, gray water, Green Inc., green products, The Vine
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Conservation? The Economy? People? It’s All the Same Conversation
There is a growing demand from science, from policy and from conservation itself to include people in conservation.
In the meantime, conservationists are still trying to figure out how to best conserve habitats and species and now how to do this with climate change. Now we’re piling on people, too?
But I would argue that thinking people [...]
Posted: September 2nd, 2009 under Conservation Issues, Ecosystem Services, South America, Sustainable Livelihoods, Water Conservation.
Tags: biodiversity, clean air, clean water, Climate Change, Ecosystem Services, G.D.P, nature, people, poverty, The New York Times, water funds. Rebecca Goldman
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