Category: Video library
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What’s Eating Iowa?
…and what’s in its water? “The nitrate here is usually between 20 and 25 milligram per liter.” Q: And wouldn’t the University of Iowa College of Public Health say they’d like to see that about five? “So any so for human consumption it must be below 10. We now know that drinking water should probably be…
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Nanoplastics: Why you may be eating and drinking more microplastics than you thought
Watch the PBS news report here: www.pbs.org From takeout containers to water bottles, plastic seems unavoidable in our daily lives. Now, two new studies have found that we’re eating and drinking more plastic than we might have realized. George Leonard, a co-author of one of the studies and chief scientist at Ocean Conservancy, joins John…
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Red Hill: Sierra Club of Hawaiʻi takes to the streets.
Thousands of people were poisoned by the US Navy’s Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility, yet over 100 million of gallons of fuel remain in the tanks— every day threatening the safety of Oʻahu’s drinking water supply and life as we know it. In November 2021, a fuel leak from the US Navy’s Red Hill…
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Rising groundwater threatens thousands of toxic sites in the Bay Area
As climate change brings devastating storms and rising tides to California, many coastal communities face another threat, one that’s hidden and trickling up from below. When sea levels rise, dense saltwater moves inland beneath the soil, pushing up the layer of fresh groundwater that floats above it. In many coastal areas, even a few inches…
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River’s End — California’s Latest Water War
Explore the global water crisis, using California as a microcosm. River’s End shows how water politics that led to the draining of the Owens Valley by Los Angeles, made famous by the film “Chinatown,” continue to this day in ongoing efforts to take ever more water from Northern California’s San Francisco Bay estuary. Except this…
