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Lake Erie is sick. Can farmers and businesses cure it?
The hard truth is that sustainability isn’t easy, but we’re bringing together the right people to get us there
Who Will Suffer Most From Climate Change? (Hint: Not You)
Climate change is bad for everyone, but small farmers in developing countries will suffer the most. Bill Gates talks about what the world can do to help them.
8 ways you may be polluting our lakes and streams—without knowing it
Finding may offer farmers a way to reduce harmful emissions from fertilized soil
Those concerned with the health of Chesapeake Bay are familiar with nitrogen as a major pollutant whose excess runoff into bay waters can lead to algal blooms and low-oxygen dead zones. Perhaps less familiar is the significant role that a form of nitrogen gas plays in greenhouse warming and the destruction of Earth's ozone layer.
TeradataVoice: Anarchy Doesn't Scale: Why Your Data Lake Needs A Government
With limited access to resources, you don’t need a government. Anarchy works just fine. To put this in context, I’ll start with a story. Once there was a pristine lake surrounded by rugged mountains. The lake was accessible only by a few intrepid scientists who settled its shores and studied its [...]
The Great Salt Lake is drying up. What could save it?
Researchers worry the Great Salt Lake could go up in dust.
What is SIP Certified?
Sustainability in Practice (SIP) Certified helps farmers and winemakers demonstrate their dedication to preserving and protecting natural and human resources. SIP Certified is a rigorous sustainable vineyard and winery certification with strict, non-negotiable requirements, committed to standards based on science and expert input, independent verification, transparency, and absence of conflict of interest. The program’s award winning... Read More
Could Lake Okeechobee become a dying lake like Lake Apopka?
Scientists warn high phosphorus levels must be reversed before irreversible damage
Why does Erie always refuse to think ahead?: Letters to the editor
Erie is allowing our bayfront to slowly erode from our sight.
Sick Of Light Pollution? Head To A National Park, Study Says.
It turns out we can actually do a lot toward fixing light pollution.
How farmers and seaweed can help tackle ocean pollution
Seaweed’s benefits as part of a superfood are well-sung but its potential to tackle the destabilization of the Earth’s natural nitrogen and phosphorous cycles deserve more attention.
Why pristine lakes are filled with toxins
Much of the focus on plastic pollution centres on our oceans. Emerging evidence shows it’s also a problem in freshwater, which may even be the source.
No way to remove mercury from lake
A week doesn’t go by without someone asking if the fish in Clear Lake are safe to eat. There is a concern about the algae and a bigger concern about the mercury. The health department advises that …
How climate change could derail fish farmers
Not only is climate change a threat for the future of aquaculture, it's already having an impact on ocean farmers today and is probably going to get worse.
Scientists Predict When Beachgoers Will Get Sick From Tainted Pacific Ocean
Scientists studying a decades-long wastewater pollution problem plaguing the Pacific Ocean at the U.S.-Mexico border predict up to 4% of swimmers a year get sick from sewage-tainted ocean water.
Zurn Farms explains how they became Water Quality Certified
Included in their challenges is farming land that has no small number of lakes, ponds, wetlands, and creeks as well as having fields that vary from little or no slope to areas that are steeply sloping.
We’re concerned about the Great Lakes—and you should be too
A native of the Great Lakes State, National Geographic’s editor contends that protection of the freshwater source is key to the planet’s survival.
Why lakes and rivers should have the same rights as humans
Water is essential to life. Yet in the eyes of the law, it remains largely unprotected -- leaving many communities without access to safe drinking water, says legal scholar Kelsey Leonard. In this powerful talk, she shows why granting lakes and rivers legal "personhood" -- giving them the same legal rights as humans -- is the first step to protecting our bodies of water and fundamentally transforming how we value this vital resource.
How animal waste is helping turn China's lakes green
Animal husbandry is contaminating China’s water and has been linked to turning lakes bright green, a phenomenon known as eutrophication
