Sea
of Galilee drying up
A dwindling
water supply in the Sea of Galilee is pushing Israel to increase its
use of desalination plants, with plans to expand two facilities and
build two more by 2010. The biblical body of water is 16.2 feet below
its lower "red line," which marks the point at which it is
ecologically inadvisable to draw water, according to the Israeli Water
Authority.
Posted
11/13/08
Global
warming to decimate China's harvests
Posted
8/27/07
Hurricane
Robs Maya of Vital Fruit Trees
Posted
8/27/07
Scientists
ask: Where have all the dolphins gone?
Posted
8/27/07
Brown
Algae Plague infects Va. Rivers
Posted 8/15/07
Arctic
sea ice at 'lowest ever levels'
Posted 8/13/07
Great
Barrier Reef 'swamped by pollutants'
Posted 8/13/07
41
Seal Pups Die of Distemper in Denmark
Posted
6/25/07
Coral
Reefs Dying Faster Than Expected
Posted 8/10/07
Expert:
Aquatic Virus Hits 2 Great Lakes
SYRACUSE,
N.Y. (AP) -- A deadly, fast-spreading aquatic virus is reaching
epidemic proportions in New York's two Great Lakes and has already
spread into the Finger Lakes region in upstate New York, a Cornell
University fisheries expert said Tuesday.
Posted
5/23/07
Lab
Confirms Deadly Fish Virus Spreading To New Species
Posted
5/25/07
Lake
Superior Changes Mystify Scientists
Superior's level is at its lowest point in eight decades and
will set a record this fall if, as expected, it dips three more
inches. Meanwhile, the average water temperature has surged 4.5
degrees since 1979, significantly above the 2.7-degree rise in
the region's air temperature during the same period.
Posted 8/6/07
Suddenly,
the bees are simply vanishing
Posted
6/14/07
UN:
Three Species Per Hour Becoming Extinct
Scientists
and environmentalists issued reports about threats to creatures and
plants including right whales, Iberian lynxes, wild potatoes and
peanuts on May 22, the International Day for Biological Diversity.
Posted
5/25/07
