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Ensia
Cities Are Finally Treating Water as a Resource, Not a Nuisance
From Houston to Melbourne, the surprising way urban areas are dealing with water woes
Hakai magazine
Proposed Amendment Could Actually Protect Marine Protected Areas
New legislation would give planned MPAs interim protection during the years-long approval process.
Ensia
Who Owns Groundwater?
California drought underscores the need to improve how the state – and the rest of us – divvy up a resource in demand.
Hakai magazine
Canada’s New Marine (Less) Protected (Than It Could Have Been) Areas
A string of concessions to the oil and gas and fishing industries has severely weakened the protective value of Canada’s largest planned marine protected...
Ensia
Are Massive Projects Really the Right Answer to Our Water Supply Woes?
Conservation and recycling can reduce the need for massive municipal water infrastructure.
Hakai magazine
The Consequences of China’s Booming Demand for Seafood
The country is putting restrictions on its domestic fishing fleet, but its distant water fleet has been growing to compensate.
Ensia
As Floods Increase, Cities Like Detroit Are Looking to Green Stormwater Infrastructure:
With climate change bringing more intense storms, urban areas are looking for better ways to manage runoff.
Hakai magazine
Is China’s Hands-Off Approach to Fisheries Producing More Fish?
China’s fishers indiscriminately target predators as well as prey, putting different pressures on the ecosystem.
Ensia
Nitrates on Tap
As contamination worsens, an oft-ignored groundwater pollutant is drawing new attention – and solutions.
Rethink
Low-lying Vietnam Is Squeezed Between Its Neighbors and the Rising Seas.
Climate change, heavy-handed water management, and upstream dams are changing the Mekong Delta, pushing residents to adapt.
Hakai magazine
A Cull to Save the Kelp
An innovative project is rehabilitating California’s kelp forests after decades of degradation at the hands of environmental decay and sea urchin predation.
Ensia
Our Drinking Water Systems Are a Disaster. What Can We Do?
In the wake of the Flint crisis, communities turn to innovative technology and financing to prevent the next crisis.
The Atlantic
California’s Underground Water War
California has been the only western state without groundwater regulation – but now that looks set to change.
The Atlantic
The Persian Leopard Is a Symbol of Persecution and Survival in the Middle East
In the Kurdish mountains of Iraq, conservationists are facing landmines and cultural taboos to save the endangered cat.
The New York Times
Making the Consumer an Active Participant in the Grid
bioGraphic
A Drop in the Ocean?
As the world’s marine ecosystems face ever-increasing threats, is the the trend toward huge, remote reserves a promising new development or a worrisome distraction?
Scientific American
Ecological Detectives Hunt for San Francisco’s Vanished Waterways
Recovering “ghost creeks” from past landscapes can help protect the city’s future amid climate chaos.
Scientific American
Depleted Groundwater Could Be Refilled by Borrowing a Trick from Solar Power
In many places around the world, groundwater is being pumped out faster than nature replenishes it. A new model points to a possible solution
Scientific American
What Lichens Can Teach Us
A new IMAX film highlights their beauty and resilience.
Nature
Can Wind and Solar Fuel Africa’s Future?
With prices for renewables dropping, many countries in Africa might leap past dirty forms of energy towards a cleaner future.