The Worth of Water from ASU Research on Vimeo. The story of the American West is a story of water, and of our Herculean efforts to capture and spread that water across an arid landscape. As our western cities continue to grow, however, we need to find ways to curb our thirst. In this mini-documentary, [...]

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Courtesy of Arizona State University News By Skip Derra Conversion of large swaths of Brazilian land for sugar plantations will help the country meet its needs for producing cane-derived ethanol, but it also could lead to important regional climate effects, according to a team of researchers from Arizona State University, Stanford University and the Carnegie [...]

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Courtesy of Penn State Live According to Mike Henry, when visiting a developing country, the fastest way to cross cultural barriers and make friends is to wield a pickaxe. And that’s exactly what he plans to do later this month when he arrives in Ghana. That doesn’t sound like a very friendly gesture until you [...]

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Courtesy of the Australian National University Four of the world’s great rivers, including the Murray Darling, are all suffering from drastically reduced flows as a direct result of water extraction, according to new ANU research. The multi-author study – led by ANU researchers Professor Quentin Grafton, Dr Jamie Pittock, Professor Tom Kompas and Dr Daniel [...]

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The health of the world’s oceans received a score of 60 out of 100 from a team of international scientists, including fisheries researchers at the University of British Columbia. The team undertook the first global quantitative assessment of ocean health and created the Ocean Health Index, published today in the journal Nature. To calculate the [...]

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The full impact of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill has yet to reveal itself, say researchers in the Tulane Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. The largest-ever accidental release of oil into marine waters could impact earth’s ecosystems for years to come — and not just along the 650 miles of the northern Gulf [...]

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Ocean advocates and surfers, Laird Hamilton and Kelly Meyer lead a call for action to protect our oceans. Tweet

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Researchers at The University of Western Australia have contributed to the first global analysis of carbon stored in seagrasses which shows they can hold as much carbon as the world’s temperate and tropical forests. The study ‘Seagrass Ecosystems as a Globally Significant Carbon Stock,’ published in the journal Nature Geoscience provides further evidence of the [...]

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is launching a new design competition called the Campus RainWorks Challenge to encourage student teams on college and university campuses across the country to develop innovative approaches to stormwater management. Stormwater is a major cause of water pollution in urban areas in the U.S., impacting the health of people [...]

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     Transportation…Adventure…Reflection…Home…Recreation…Sustenance Water is the driving force of all nature. Leonardo da Vinci  Photos courtesy of Sheila Hall, Eva Mossberg and Penelope Davis Tweet

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