"Arab World Faces Worsening Water Crisis: Report"
"The Arab world, one of the driest regions on the planet, will tip into severe water scarcity as early as 2015, a report issued [Nov. 4] predicts."
Source: Reuters, 11/15/2010
People & Population
Disease-Tracking Tool May Help Both People and Wildlife
This growing database may help you identify emerging problems and patterns, and supplement what government and university personnel can track.
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Create Custom Environmental Maps with National Atlas
Dial up just one layer of data, or add layer after layer (from scores of topics) to create your own concoction of interlinked factors. The zoom function allows you to narrow or enlarge your geographic coverage as you see fit.
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EPA Gives Public an Environmental Justice Mapping Tool: EJView
This new tool allows any user online to create custom study areas based on a wide range of variables: address, ZIP code, county, city, township, facility, watershed, or geographic coordinates. Other environmental data can then be mapped onto that study area.
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Peak Water: A New Way To Look at Long-Term Water Issues
Viewing local, regional, national, and global water issues through the lens of "peak water," a concept explained in a Pacific Institute paper, can yield some interesting angles on water-related stories and long-term water issues.
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"Malaria Threatens 2 Million in Pakistan as Floodwaters Turn Stagnant"
"More than 2 million cases of malaria are expected in Pakistan in the coming months in the wake of the country's devastating floods, aid workers have warned."
Source: Guardian, 10/04/2010
"The Disappearing World of the Last of the Arctic Hunters"
The Inughuit people, who hunt marine mammals with kayaks and harpoons from the world's northernmost permanently inhabited settlements, are seeing their way of life vanish as the ice melts beneath them.
Source: UK Observer, 10/04/2010
AK Native Corporations: A Promise Unfulfilled
"For many with a stake in Alaska native corporations, promise of a better life remains unfulfilled."
Source: Wash Post, 09/30/2010
Calif. Climate Ballot Fight: National Ripple Effects Either Way
If Proposition 23 passes, it could disrupt plans for many green companies and their suppliers in CA and around the US — not to mention weakening political will in other states, or at the federal level, for tougher green energy policy.
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Improved Tsunami Warning System Still Needs Work
A National Research Council report says one of the most significant problems is a continuing lack of communication between federal tsunami warning system officials; local officials and emergency managers; the media; and the public.
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