Category: Solutions
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To Save Their Water Supply, Colorado Farmers Taxed Themselves
A sign advertising a water sale sits on a farm outside Del Norte, Colorado. The Western U.S. is just starting to recover after a prolonged, 16-year drought. A lack of water can force people to take a hard look at how they use it, and make big changes. That’s what happened in southern Colorado, where…
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California Water Savings Dwindle When Drought Fears Subside
Public perception of drought risk influences how people use water resources. New research sheds light on how public awareness could shift behaviors toward long-term water conservation. Credit: bozhdb/iStock/Getty Images Plus/Getty Images Policy changes and media attention affect how much water Californians use, as well as how long these behaviors prevail. Could public awareness shift behaviors…
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Lonely Bolivian water frog seeks mate on Match.com to save his species
Romeo ISO a lady frog. (CNN) An 11-year-old Bolivian water frog named Romeo has been looking for his “Juliet” for the past decade to save his species. Global Wildlife Conservation, Match.com and the Bolivian Amphibian Initiative have teamed up for a fundraising campaign to find a mate for this lonely Sehuencas water frog. The campaign…
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Can Deepwater Aquaculture Avoid the Pitfalls of Coastal Fish Farms?
An open-ocean fish farm in Hawaii. Courtesy of Bryce Groark Near-shore fish farms have created a host of environmental problems. Now, U.S. aquaculture advocates – backed by mainstream conservation groups – are saying that locating well-run operations out in the ocean could produce sustainable food and protect wild stocks from overfishing. Donna Lanzetta has a…
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The simple river-cleaning tactics that big farms ignore
Ione Cleverley wasn’t eager to break up with her tenant, who had been farming 88 acres of her central Iowa land for more than a decade. He was affable and hardworking, but after harvesting his corn and soybeans, the farmer left her fields un-planted. Cleverley had learned that each spring, as the soil warmed and…
