In the June 19 Eos, Vergana and colleagues itemize the impending costs to Andean communities as glaciers, their source of water for both consumption and electricity generation, disappears as a result of climate change: These consequences are akin to a climate tax imposed by energy-intensive societies on populations that have contributed little to the climate …
Mike Campana on the bottled water incident: I remember watching Albuquerque Mayor Martin “El Jefe” Chavez on his cable TV show a few years ago. He had bottled water on his desk. I emailed him, saying that sent the wrong message to viewers. He emailed back, saying that for what it was worth, the bottle …
Biblical scholarship has never been my specialty, but one of my favorite bits has always been the part where the Lord God makes all the beasts of the field and fowl of the air and then brings them to Adam to check out His handiwork: And whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the …
Stopped on my bike at a red light this morning, a scooter pulls up behind me. I glance over my shoulder and smile in greeting at an elderly couple – perhaps 70 – both in shorts. As they speed past me when the light turns green, I notice that the woman, sitting on the back, …
From this morning’s Times: Enough fertile land could turn into desert within the next generation to create an “environmental crisis of global proportions,” large-scale migrations and political instability in parts of Africa and Central Asia unless current trends are quickly stemmed, a new United Nations report concludes.
The National Weather Service’s Tucson monsoon tracker. Tucson uses sustained dewpoint to answer the perennial question of when the monsoon starts. You can see we’re currently behind schedule there.
From today’s West Side Journal, a discussion of the bike trails (or lack thereof) on the new extension they just completed of Paseo del Norte: “Oh my,” John says. “When you get to the top of the hill, where the road narrows, there is not only no bike lane, but no shoulder. And not only …
It’s almost like I never left. When I abandoned California nearly two decades ago, they were fighting about the environmental effects of water diverted from the Sacramento-San Joaquin delta for the growing suburbs of Southern California. Still fighting: Warning that a recent boost in water exports is nudging the delta smelt closer to extinction, environmentalists …
When I write my “water in the desert” bits here or at work, I have this underlying image that motivates my thinking. It’s a childhood car camping vacation (one of many, the image is broad and generic). It is before the days of ubiquitous auto air conditioning. We’re driving across the beautiful deserts of the …
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