Pearltrees visualization problem mac safari. Liquid Gold: The Economics of Water Trading Markets. Presidio Graduate School’s Macroeconomics course for Spring 2012, is authoring a series of articles.
The articles on this “micro-blog” reflect reactions and thoughts on news items, economic theory, and other issues as they pertain to the concept of sustainability. Follow along here. By Nick Sanderson. Rivers are Largest Source Of Mercury in Arctic Ocean, Study Says. Water Security Maps. (Updated 28 November 2012) Here we shall present maps (list, details and sample of maps below) related to global water security that are useful for both analysis and delivery of products.
As new maps are created and found, they will be added to the corresponding Pearltree #Watermaps. The Pearltree can be accessed, as for the energy security bibliography, by clicking on the Pearl on the right hand side of this paragraph, or in the embedded application below. You are welcome to share your findings by joining the team on Pearltree.
Maps are both necessary tools for analysis and crucial delivery visuals for our foresight and warning products. Active Fire Mapping Program. Climate change hits globe's water cycle. LIVERMORE, Calif., May 21 (UPI) -- The Earth's dry lands are getting drier and wet ones wetter as climate change shifts and accelerates the globe's water cycle, U.S. researchers say.
Changing patterns of salinity in the global ocean during the past 50 years show a clear fingerprint of climate change on the shift in worldwide rainfall and evaporation, they said. Scientists with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California along with colleagues at Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization say the Earth's water cycle has strengthened by 4 percent 1950-2000. The cycle represents the ratio of rainfall rates with rates of evaporation. "These changes suggest that arid regions have become drier and high rainfall regions have become wetter in response to observed global warming," LLNL researcher Paul Durack said. Changes in ocean salinity can be directly linked to climate change, researchers said. Now blue rating water standards for industry. The Union Ministry of Water Resources has asked the CII to frame guidelines for increasing water efficiency in Indian industries.
The CII is likely to come up with the water standards by March next year News | Water Outlook to 2050: The OECD calls for early and strategic action. Water Outlook to 2050: The OECD calls for early and strategic action (pdf) By Dr.
Xavier Leflaive, OECD Environment Directorate, Paris Water infrastructure construction, Canberra, Australia. OTHERS / STATES : Israeli water major in talks with W Bengal for infra projects. New Delhi, May 22: Israel's largest national water company, Mekorot, is in talks with the West Bengal Government for setting up water infrastructure projects.
A top-level team of the State-owned Israeli company met senior officials in the West Bengal Government in Kolkata on Monday. Tens Of People Arrested In East & West Azarbaijan Protesting The Drying Up Of Lake Uromieh « persianbanoo. May 22, 2012 Under increased heavy security atmosphere in East and West Azarbaijan, tens of people were arrested by police and Intelligence Ministry in the last two days.
Yesterday in Tabriz, during scattered demonstrations protesting drying up of Lake Uromieh, Esrafil Omidi a post graduate student at Shahid Beheshti university in Uromieh and activists Mostafa Avazpour and Ghader Norouzi were arrested. Also yesterday morning, former secretary of the Azerbaijani Association of Tabriz University, Afsaneh Toughi was arrested inside the university by Intelligence Ministry forces.
Tweeting Robots Monitor Water Quality in California Rivers. UC Berkeley Campus Life/Video screen capture To keep an eye on the quality of the water in California, a team from the University of California, Berkeley has developed robots that don't just swim around, they tweet their findings.
The Floating Sensor Network is a new approach to measuring water quality, ditching fixed location sensors for mobile units that can monitor a variety of locations. 2012 - 4th Edition. L’Ifremer étudie les champs de nodules polymétalliques. L’Atalante, navire de la flotte Ifremer©Ifremer/Michel GOUILLOU Source IFREMER La campagne océanographique franco-allemande BIONOD [1] (contraction de BIOlogie et NODules) a débuté le 27 mars à bord du navire L’Atalante de l’Ifremer.
Elle se poursuivra pendant un mois et demi, jusqu’au 10 mai prochain, dans le Pacifique nord-est, dans la zone de Clarion-Clipperton, entre l’archipel d’Hawaï et la côte ouest du Mexique. La campagne BIONOD répond aux engagements de la France vis-à-vis de l’Autorité internationale des fonds marins [2] qui lui a attribué un secteur de 75 000 km2 pour l’exploration des nodules polymétalliques [3].
California's Deadlocked Delta: Is Carbon Farming the Future? This is the third story in our three-part series on California's Delta.
Tules on Twitchell Island in the Delta. (Photo: Josh Cassidy/KQED) With thousands of acres of rich farmland, the Delta has a long agricultural legacy. But farming there can be a risky business. Dozens of farms have been flooded over the past half century as aging levees have collapsed. Venezuela: Floods (as of 14 May 2012) - Location Map. Methane Emissions from the Arctic Ocean. A Tour of Drought as it Unfolds Across the U.S. Last year at this time, all eyes were on Texas, where drought conditions were intensifying into what became that state’s worst single year drought on record, causing nearly $8 billion in economic losses.
Recently, though, Texas has gone from famine to feast in the precipitation department, and drought concerns for the upcoming summer are focused farther to the west, as drought tightens its grip across a broad swath of the interior West and Southwest In addition to the West, drought conditions are also prevalent in the Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, and parts of the Northeast as well, along with a small pocket in the Upper Midwest. In all, 56 percent of the Lower 48 states were experiencing drought conditions as of May 8, almost twice the area compared to last year at this time, according to data from the U.S. Drought Monitor. U.S. Drought Hits Spain's Wheat Crop. Georgian agency denies having misinformed about flood - Democracy & Freedom Watch. A report went out from Georgia's Agency for Emergency Situations that a river had broken out of its banks inside a city with more than a million inhabitants.
Later the agency denied having said it. (Photo: Mari Nikuradze.) TBILISI, DFWatch – As Georgia’s capital was drenched in rain water, and a stream flooded a district, killing five, reports went out from the national emergency agency that what caused the disaster was that the river Mtkvari had burst its banks. Mtkvari is the largest river in the South Caucasus, carrying close to a hundred cubic meters of water per second. It would be a major natural disaster for it to break out of its banks in a city with more than a million inhabitants. Associated Press is among many reliable news agencies which reported that the Agency for Emergency Situations in Georgia explained the five deaths with the river having spilled over its banks. Unsustainable water. South American drought fuels fears of food price shocks, as soya bean harvests suffer The viability of water supplies throughout key regions of China, India, Pakistan, South Africa and the US are under threat from unsustainable domestic, agricultural and industrial demands, according to a new study that maps water use down to 10km² worldwide.
The growth economies of China and India, and the world’s largest economy USA are identified by risk analysis company Maplecroft, in its newly released Water Stress Index, as having vast geographical regions and sector areas where unsustainable water use is outstripping supply. Maplecroft states that the situation so serious, it has the potential to limit economic growth by constraining business activities, as well as hampering agricultural outputs.
Water India. Aswan dam. Water maps. AQUASTAT - FAO's Information System on Water and Agriculture. Website updates 20/12/2016 - Since 2015, a section on "Women and irrigation" is added when updating country profiles. Could there be 'Water Wars' in the Future? 48 hours to save our oceans. 290,302 have signed. Help us get to 500,000 Update: 19 September 2012. Source found for missing water in sea-level rise. Imagebroker.net / SuperStock Human water use, for example in irrigation, makes a substantial contribution to sea-level rise. Climate change, with its associated melting ice caps and shrinking glaciers, is the usual suspect when it comes to explaining rising sea levels. But a recent study now shows that human water use has a major impact on sea-level change that has been overlooked. During the latter half of the twentieth century, global sea level rose by about 1.8 millimetres per year, according to data from tide gauges.
The "Inconvenient Truth" Film About Water. Water Shortages May Leave Energy Producers Dying of Thirst. Despite Recent Rainy Weather, New York Faces Drought Condition. The dry winter and spring means New York City started May in Level 1 draught conditions. While that's the least severe level of drought, the lack of moisture is notable. Climatologists at the Northeast Regional Climate Center said typically the region gets 15 inches of precipitation between January and April. This year there was only 9 inches. Art Degaetano, a professor of Earth and Atmospheric Science at Cornell, said reservoirs are at sufficiently high levels, mostly because of the heavy storms of last summer and fall which included Tropical Storms Irene and Lee.
Still, Degaetano said streams are low, which could cause spawning problems for fish and the dry ground is a problem for farmers. Greg Debuck owns a sod farm in Orange County and said the weather has made it hard to do his work this year. Drought conditions also make brush fires more common. How politicians could end droughts FOREVER: But they don't want to. 13 die in Nepal flash flood.
Drought hits Angola's already struggling farms. Oops! Sorry, the page you requested either doesn't exist or isn't available right now! Water security: a SF&W issue for national security? In the light of the 31 january 2012 “Unclassified Statement for the Record on the Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence” by James R.
Global Water Security: a US Intelligence Community Assessment (pdf. Building upon the 2012 “Global Water Security” IC Assessment. The Water Sigils. Global Water Security: The Intelligence Community Assessment. “Water security is about much more than access to H2O,” said Jane Harman, director, president, and CEO of the Wilson Center at the May 9 meeting, “Global Water Security: The Intelligence Community Assessment.” The Coming Global Water Crisis - Stewart M. Patrick - International. What happens when demand for this essential resource starts exceeding supply in many parts of the world?