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Wall Street Discovers Water Shortages Affect the Bottom Line
At last, the financial markets may be waking up to find that water supplies are not inexhaustible, and that climate change is going to move the bottom line much sooner than anyone thought. Maybe we'll be saved by the financial concerns of Wall Street after all. Read More...
Lake Mead: Then and Now
Graphic pictures of Lake Mead in August 1985 and 25 years later. Some of it is drought, but much of it is human use, as the American Southwest pretends that the desert can support an increasing population that uses water as if the supply were inexhaustible. Read More...
When the Grass Isn’t Green
It will be a surprise to many that Fox News, normally a bastion of anti-environmental rhetoric, declared its concern that grass-carpeted city parks in dry parts of the country are “Bad for the Environment.” Fox’s reasoning – that the grassy areas release more carbon into the atmosphere than they capture – is right on... Read More...