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Warming Shifts Tropical Rain Band Northward

Today’s wet, temperate areas near the equator will someday be arid thanks to a tropical rain band that has been moving north at an average rate of almost a mile a year for three centuries – probably because of global warming, according to scientists. And ‘someday’ isn’t centuries away: it’s as soon as 2050 for [...]

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Robot Removes Pollution from Water

As potable water becomes more scarce, a new invention offers hope, with the potential to clean up polluted waterways and make them suitable for drinking once again. The WatCleaner robot, created by Chinese industrial designer Ye Yao, floats on the surface of the water and automatically filters oil, trash and other pollutants. It has the [...]

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Who’s Who in Green: Shalini Kantayya

Growing up between Mumbai, India and Brooklyn, New York, it took filmmaker and water rights activist Shalini Kantayya a long time to understand how the survival of cities is dependent on finite natural resources. But soon enough, Kantayya began to feel torn between the materialistic, technologically advanced American society and the world that can’t even [...]

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Biofuel Fail: Jatropha Requires Huge Amounts of Water

The Jatropha shrub, which grows wild all over New Zealand, seemed like a really promising biofuel. It is grown on arid and marginal land in India, parts of Africa and other countries, and has been hailed as ‘green gold’. It was even used to power a commercial airliner in December. Unfortunately, despite its ability to [...]

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Water Wars Already Starting in India

The idea of wars being fought over water just as they’ve been fought over oil may still seem foreign to a nation full of people who regularly waste millions of gallons of it just on watering useless lawns. But, water wars are already a reality in India where a water crisis has caused escalating violence [...]

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EPA FAIL: No Plans to Remove Rocket Fuel from our Drinking Water

When Bush was president, the EPA was practically useless. We couldn’t count on them to get anything important done – for us, anyway. They were more than happy to help out their industry buddies, though. Well, despite a fresh new EPA that’s seemingly more on top of things than their predecessors, perchlorate – also known [...]

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