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In Middle East, Rising Temperatures and Climate Cooperation
February 15th, 2023
Via Diplomatic Courier, commentary that – instead of driving tensions and even war between nations – climate change may actually bring nations closer together: In September 2020, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain signed a diplomatic normalization agreement widely known as the Abraham Accords. Afterwards, other Arab countries, such as Sudan and Morocco, started […]
Read more »Will Mormons Save The Great Salt Lake?
February 15th, 2023
Via The Washington Post, an interesting look at the convergence of religion, conservation, and water: Overuse of water compounded by a decades-long Western megadrought threatens the survival of Utah’s Great Salt Lake. North America’s largest saline lake has lost 73 percent of its water and 60 percent of its surface area compared with its average […]
Read more »Mono Lake Tribe Seeks To Assert Its Water Rights To Halt Water Diversions To Los Angeles
February 15th, 2023
Via Inside Climate News, a look at efforts by the Kootzaduka’a to save their wtaer – and their cultural and natural heritage: Against the backdrop of a severe drought linked with global warming, conservation advocates and Native Americans in California are calling for a temporary emergency stop to all surface water diversions from Mono Lake, contending that […]
Read more »How To Prevent A ‘Complete Doomsday’ Along The Colorado River
February 15th, 2023
Via The Washington Post, commentary on potential steps to avoid a complete doomsday along the Colorado River: Time is running out for the Colorado River. After more than two decades of drought fueled by climate change, the once-mighty waterway has seen its flow shrink by more than 20 percent. Lake Mead and Lake Powell, the nation’s largest […]
Read more »Breaking the Brazos
February 14th, 2023
Courtesy of Inside Climate News, an article on how development is threatening the “River of the Arms of God” from end to end: Few rivers can claim as strong a connection to Texas’ natural and cultural history—and its very identity—as the Brazos. It drains the second-largest river basin in Texas, meandering for 840 miles from […]
Read more »Restoring An Ancient Lake From Rubble of Unfinished Airport in Mexico City
February 14th, 2023
Via MIT Technology Review, a report on how plans for Mexico’s $1 billion Lake Texcoco Ecological Park reflect a new paradigm in urban design: REUTERS/CARLOS JASSO VIA ALAMY When the Mexica people left their ancestral land of Aztlán in search of a new home, they were following orders from the sun god Huitzilopochtli. In 1325, the […]
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