by Beth Holmes | Jun 27, 2022 | Climate Change, Conservation, Sustainability
Groundwater rights ruling shakes up Nevada during the state’s long drought. Nevada, like the rest of the American West, is more than twenty years into a megadrought. Climatologists say the area has become much warmer and drier in recent decades than in the...
by Beth Holmes | Feb 14, 2022 | Conservation, Environmental hazards, Sustainability
San Javier de Cachaví, a small village in Ecuador, is being choked by oil palm trees, and now the courts want them to pay the plantation owners thousands for protesting the damage. San Javier de Cachaví is small, only about 120 families in a little community along a...
by Beth Holmes | May 14, 2021 | Conservation, Environmental hazards, Resources
Seven percent of all renewable fresh water in the world is in Canada, twenty percent if you include sources considered non-renewable like glaciers and underground aquifers. For scale, Canada has about half of one percent of the world’s population. So there is...
by Beth Holmes | Apr 19, 2021 | Climate Change, Conservation, Sustainability
The Klamath Basin watershed, which spans much of the length of the border between Oregon and California, is naturally arid, a long flat expanse which flows from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. But for the past several years, arid has become desiccated. The...
