…either bitter-melon-flavored, salty or plain water. After consuming the water, the participants completed an exercise in which they indicated the likelihood that they would save an extra allowance received each…
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…the corn market. This massive shift affects not only food supplies, but scarce resources like water. In some cases, scientists are engineering crops to require less water and fertilizer. Land-use…
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Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email When the well beneath BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig blew out in 2010, 4.9 million barrels of oil poured into the waters of the Gulf of…
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…reclamation, groundwater samples from domestic supply wells have higher levels of mine-derived chemical constituents than well water from unmined areas. Many reclaimed areas show little or no regrowth of woody…
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…parking, then the increase in impervious surfaces would likely cause water quality degradation, increased flooding, and decreased groundwater recharge. However, to our knowledge the existing literature does not test the…
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…in the journal Land Economics, “The Residential Water Demand Effect of Increasing Block Rate Water Budgets.” While the title of the study wasn’t exactly a prizewinner, the resulting feature highlighted…
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Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email The crisis in Flint, Michigan over sustained exposure to lead and other toxins from the city’s water supply has many people concerned about lead poisoning and…
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…of ocean heating, oceanography, coastal impacts, and designing for changing environments. Then there’s the impact on ecosystems, the impact on water, the hydrological cycles, which are so much more complicated…
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…bluefin tuna caught off the California coast, and the ongoing water leaks at the plant are not reassuring. Japan projects that it will take 30 to 40 years to shut…
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…Water Accompanying Gas-Well Drilling and Hydraulic Fracturing.” It finds that “in active gas-extraction areas (one or more gas wells within 1 km), average and maximum methane concentrations in drinking-water wells…
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