Category: Salt water
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IPCC report: ‘possible loss of entire countries in this century’
IPCC report: Global heating above 1.5C will be “catastrophic” for Pacific island nations, lead to loss of entire countries to sea level rise this century.
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Most arctic ice at North Pole has vanished, warns polar explorer
Robert Swan on an expedition (2041 Foundation) Robert Swan, the first person to walk to both the North and South poles, tells i about the dramatic changes he has seen to the polar icescape in the past three decades Thirty years ago the explorer Robert Swan walked 700 kilometres (435 miles) across Arctic sea ice…
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Double whammy killed coral reefs off Texas coast
Photo: This colony of Spiny Flower Coral (Mussa angulosa) shows sections that are partially bleached, completely bleached, and even some dead sections already overgrown with algae. A bleached Fire Coral stands alongside. (Credit: Joyce & Frank Burek/NOAA Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary) Researchers may have solved the mystery of what caused the death of…
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Japan Wants to Dump Nuclear Plant’s Tainted Water. Fishermen Fear the Worst.
Photo: Tatsuo Niitsuma and his wife, Yoko, in Iwaki, Japan, this month. Ko Sasaki for The New York Times The water from the Fukushima disaster is more radioactive than the authorities have previously publicized, raising doubts about government assurances that it will be made safe. IWAKI, Japan — The overpowering earthquake and tsunami that ripped…
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Too much salt: water desalination plants harm environment: U.N.
FILE PHOTO: Workers walk outside a desalination plant, south of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 2011. REUTERS/Fahad Shadeed OSLO (Reuters) – Almost 16,000 desalination plants worldwide produce bigger-than-expected flows of highly salty waste water and toxic chemicals that are damaging the environment, a U.N.-backed study said on Monday. Desalination plants pump out 142 million cubic meters…
