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Growing Water Deficit Threatening Grain Harvests

3:12 pm in agriculture, Business & Politics, dams, farming, Food & Health, water conservation by TreeHugger

irrigated field photo Photo credit: Wonderlane/Creative Commons Many countries are facing dangerous water shortages. As world demand for food has soared, millions of farmers have drilled too many irrigation wells in efforts to expand their harvests. As a result, water tables are falling and wells are going dry in some 20 countries containing half the world's people. The over...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Head of Brazil’s Environmental Protection Agency Says It Is Not His Job to Protect the Environment

6:21 pm in amazonia, brazil, Business & Politics, dams by TreeHugger

amazon in fog photo Photo: CIAT International Center for Tropical Agriculture / cc As the President of Brazil's environmental protection agency IBAMA, which oversees regulationion in the world's largest rainforest, Curt Trennepohl has a very important position -- the only problem is, he says that protecting the environment isn't part of it. In an interview with Australia's "60 Minutes", when asked if his job was to guard the...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Big Builders to Lead Turkish Environmental Ministries

8:00 am in Business & Politics, cities, dams, forestry, turkey, urban planning by TreeHugger

turkish parliament government ankara photo The Turkish Parliament. Photo: TBMM. Are the foxes watching the hen house in Turkey? That seems to be the feeling among many environmentalists and urban planners, who greeted with skepticism the announcement Wednesday of the new Turkish government cabinet following elections in mid-June. The figures selected to head up top-level forestry and environment ministries are veterans of state agencies much-criticized for their aggressive dam-b...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Water Released by Dam Killing 100,000 Fish a Day

6:45 pm in Business & Politics, dams, fish by TreeHugger

grand coulee dam photo Photo: prw_silvan / cc At the foot of the Grand Coulee Dam, fish are dying by the hundreds of thousands. In an effort to make room for the higher than average snow melt-off, state officials have been releasing a massive amount of water -- but the consequences have been alarmingly deadly to farm-raised steelhead trout. As water falls from the spill-gates it churns up gases toxic which have reportedly killed some 100,000 of the fish each day in the Columbia River, and some fear that it could make the region a killing field for protected aquatic wildlife....Read the full story on TreeHugger

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