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Glen Canyon Dam: Facing Dead Pool
October 2nd, 2024

Via The Land Desk, a look at the crisis facing Glen Canyon Dam: In 1998, when I was in fourth grade, I joined a class field trip to Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. But when we got to Cortez, the road was barricaded. Hours earlier, three men had stolen a water-tanker truck and killed […]

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The Panama Canal Needs More Water. The Solution Could Displace Thousands.
October 2nd, 2024

Via Grist, a report on how a proposed dam and reservoir along the Rio Indio would bring much-needed water to the Panama Canal, but at a steep cost: Thousand-foot-long ships chug through the Panama Canal’s waters each day, over the submerged stumps of a forgotten forest and by the banks of a new one, its […]

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