Salinity

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First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 1 reports

Wastewater treatment market to increase at a CAGR of 7.4% through to 2018

The has been forecast to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.4% between 2013 and 2018, driven by the considerable technology additions and improvements set to be made to systems.Water is the most essential of all fundamental needs of ... [Published MyNewsDesk - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Wastewater Treatment, CAGR, Water Treatment, GE Water & Process Technologies, Wastewater

First reported 19 hours ago - Updated 16 hours ago - 2 reports

Qld mine water release harmless, govt says

Queensland's deputy premier says the success of a pilot scheme to release water from flooded mines will see practice expanded.Water will be released from more flooded Queensland mines into rivers because a pilot program shows there are no environmental ... [Published Special Broadcasting Service - 16 hours ago]

Entities: Jeff Seeney, Bill Byrne, Annastacia Palaszczuk

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated 18 hours ago - 2 reports

United States Agency For International Development

India, US & Aus join hands to develop climate-resilient crops

India, the United States and Australia have joined hands to develop new climate-resilient varieties of rice and wheat, two of the "big three" primary crops required to feed the world. As part of this endeavor, the United States Agency for International ... [Published DDI News - 18 hours ago]

Entities: United States Agency For International Development, India, Global Warming/Climate Change

First reported 20 hours ago - Updated 20 hours ago - 1 reports

Microbial biodiversity in saline shallow lakes of the Monegros Desert, Spain

The Monegros desert contains one of the largest sets of inland saline lakes in Europe constituting a threatened landscape of great scientific and ecological value with large number of reported endemisms. We analyzed bacteria, archaea and microbial eukaryotes ... [Published Bionity.com - 20 hours ago]

Entities: Biodiversity, Bacteria, Salinity, Spain

First reported 20 hours ago - Updated 20 hours ago - 1 reports

Institution of Engineers

Unplanned groundwater extraction threat to people

Adverse impacts of unplanned extraction of groundwater have become one of the dangerous threats to the lives and livelihoods of Bangladesh’s common people, said speakers at a seminar yesterday.The seminar, “Impact of Climate Change and Unplanned Withdrawal ... [Published Bangladesh Daily Star - 20 hours ago]

Entities: Bangladesh, Threat, Institution of Engineers, Global Warming/Climate Change

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated 22 hours ago - 2 reports

Call to protect natural resources to sustain life on earth

ISLAMABAD: Federal Secretary of the Ministry of Climate Change, Syed Muhammad Ali Gardezi has said that providing and sustaining water for the needs of the surging population people has become a daunting challenge of the present time and achieving sustainable ... [Published Online News Pakistan - 22 hours ago]

Entities: Biodiversity, Pakistan, Syed Muhammad Ali Gardezi, Sustainable Development, Muhammad Khalid

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Crystals in the sun

The crystal plant, also known as ice plant, is a rare, indigenous plant that grows along the coast in sandy or gravely habitats. It is called so because the entire plant is covered in crystalline bladders which shine in the sun. It is native to Europe, ... [Published Times of Malta - May 22 2013]

Entities: Species, Habitat, genitourinary system

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 2 reports

PNNL study finds US could grow enough algae to produce 25B gallons of fuel per year

Trade-off analysis map showing the available and least expensive water option for each site. Sites where water supply costs are <20% of biofuel value are colored according to the least expensive available source. Where freshwater was not available ... [Published Green Car Congress - May 21 2013]

Entities: Algae, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Biofuels, Blowdown

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Researchers find massive impacts dispersed chlorine, helped make Earth habitable

08:30, Space & Earth/Earth Sciences(Phys.org) —Life as we know it may not have existed if the Earth wasn't repeatedly bombarded by massive planetary bodies more than 4 billion years ago according to new research conducted by scientists at the University ... [Published PhysOrg.com - May 22 2013]

Entities: Chlorine, Salinity, Bromine, Halogen

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 2 reports

Predictions about 2013 Mississippi shrimp season

BILOXI, MS (WLOX) -The start of shrimp season in Mississippi is about two weeks away. Tuesday, the Commission on Marine Resources heard an update about expectations for the 2013 season.CMR commissioners listened as Traci Floyd outlined early indicators ... [Published WLOX - May 22 2013]

Entities: Mississippi, Salinity, Cheap, Declination

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 2 reports

Climate Change Models may not be Accurate

Two scientists were researching rainfall patterns across during the last ice age when they found that none of the climate models they tested were able to reproduce their results.Jessica Tierney of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Pedro DiNezio ... [Published French Tribune - May 21 2013]

Entities: Salinity, Global Warming/Climate Change, Climate, Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Joint effort to boost EOR on UKCS

After more than 40 years of production in the North Sea, with declining production and an ever more complex and costly operating environment, it could be easy to view the basin with a “glass half empty” attitude.However, the industry and authorities are ... [Published Offshore Engineer - May 21 2013]

Entities: Ian Walker, Salinity, North Sea

Quotes

"The chosen Discovery mission is InSight, a long-awaited Mars geophysical lander, which will perform seismic and temperature measurements – by means of a subsurface probe – as well as precise measurements of orbital motions. This will help answer important questions about Mars’ deep interior and the formation of the terrestrial planets."

ET on Titan? You can’t be serious [Published Sydney Morning Herald - 5 hours ago]

...With less salt to create buoyancy, the risk that the bitumen will sink rises dramatically. "As soon as you get to fresher water the risk of sinking is really high."

Bitumen Doesn't Float [Published TheTyee.ca - 14 hours ago]

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Unplanned groundwater extraction threat to people [Published Bangladesh Daily Star - 20 hours ago]
Opinion: North Pole moving, Tea Party to blame [Published Clarendon Live - 21 hours ago]
Call to protect natural resources to sustain li... [Published Online News Pakistan - 22 hours ago]
Riverland and Mildura-Swan Hill Rural Report fo... [Published ABC Online - 22 hours ago]
News in brief 14 May 2013 [Published IWA Publishing - 23 hours ago]
Smooth transitions [Published CattleNetwork.com - May 22 2013]
Conserving the Diversity of Life - Internationa... [Published International Union for Conservation of Nature - May 22 2013]
Forsythe celebrates reopening of Wildlife Drive... [Published Shore News Today - May 22 2013]
Guest Column: Family Vacations [Published San Angelo Standard-Times - May 22 2013]
Crystals in the sun [Published Times of Malta - May 22 2013]
World: U.S. - Australia - India public-private ... [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - May 22 2013]
Mulloway prefer the Murray [Published Warrnambool Standard - May 22 2013]
Universities team up to track Atlantic sturgeon... [Published Environmental Monitor - May 22 2013]
International Bio-Diversity Day observed [Published Pakistan Today - May 22 2013]

Blogs

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The Younger Dryas [Published NeuroLogica Blog - 8 hours ago] I love raging scientific controversies. I am not talking about vaccines and autism, global warming, evolution, or homeopathy – these are not actual scientific controversies. They are political controversies intruding onto science. I prefer nerdy ...
US, Australia, and India Collaborate on Abiotic... [Published CropBiotech Update - May 22 2013] The US Agency for International Development (USAID) in partnership with The Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics (ACPFG) and Vibha Agrotech Limited will collaborate to develop wheat and rice with drought and salinity tolerance through genetic ...
PNNL study finds US could grow enough algae to ... [Published Green Car Congress - May 21 2013] Trade-off analysis map showing the available and least expensive water option for each site. Sites where water supply costs are <20% of biofuel value are colored according to the least expensive available source. Where freshwater was not available ...
PNNL study finds US could grow enough algae to ... [Published Green Car Congress - May 21 2013] Trade-off analysis map showing the available and least expensive water option for each site. Sites where water supply costs are <20% of biofuel value are colored according to the least expensive available source. Where freshwater was not available ...
Ebb and flow [Published Banyan - The Economist - May 16 2013] THE world’s most densely populated country of any size also happens to be home to the world’s fastest-growing city. By the middle of the 21st century, Bangladesh, whose landmass could be fit 58 times into Brazil’s, will be home to 195m people—that ...

Press Releases

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Environmental ‘blueprints’ help set natural res... [Published Premier of Victoria - May 15 2013]
Media Advisory: Upcoming global conference to d... [Published CisionWire - English - Apr 04 2013]
International Lithium Corp. Prepares Drilling a... [Published CisionWire - English - Dec 06 2012]