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Owing to growing development levels in surrounding areas and the widespread use of road salt, the freshwater lakes of much of North America are getting saltier by the year, according to new research conducted as part of the Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network Fellowship Program.
A new report from the Clean Water Fund claims that drinking water supplies in Oklahoma are at risk from several oil and gas wastewater wells. Many private wells could also be affected by wastewater disposal wells permitted by the Oklahoma Corporation Commission (OCC).
Rainfall levels in the Middle East fell to nearly one-fifth of modern levels around 120,000 years ago, and again around 10,000 years ago, according to new research. To put that in different terms, the Middle East at those times experienced a degree of drought that hasn’t been seen in modern or historical times (in the region).
In an interesting move, a court in the state of Uttarakhand in India has ordered that the Ganges and the Yamuna rivers be granted the same legal rights as humans. That is to say, the rivers must be granted status as living human entities.
While Egypt has been in something of a state of turmoil for, at the very least, the last few years, things are only slated to get worse and worse there, going by recent research.
The US Environmental Protection Agency’s new administrator, Scott Pruitt, has already signaled plans to roll back several Obama-era policies and planned to provide businesses with “regulatory certainty” — but at the same time, his first speech has been graded a D+ or C- by environmental academics.
The warming trend that has accompanied anthropogenic climate change to date has reduced Colorado River flows by 0.5 million acre-feet (at the very least) over just a 14-year time period (2000–2014). This is according to new research from the University of Arizona and Colorado State University.
The US Environmental Protection Agency has almost immediately been castrated and had any legitimacy it once had undermined after Scott Pruitt, US President Donald Trump’s controversial nomination to head the agency, was confirmed by the Senate last week.
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