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The Water Crisis In Chennai: Who’s To Blame, How Do You Fix It?

Posted on July 18, 2019 by Lauren Frayer | 0 Comments

From NPR Reservoirs are dry in India’s sixth biggest city. Municipal taps work only a few hours a day. Trains are delivering emergency water supplies. (Image credit: Arun Sankar/AFP/Getty Images) Read the full article from NPR

Red List: Extinction threat to overlooked species

Posted on July 18, 2019 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

From BBC A deep-sea snail, many of Europe’s fungi and half the freshwater fish in Japan are just some obscure additions to a list of threatened species. The Red List, a conservation status catalogue of more than 100,000 species, is…

Our Taste For Turtle Soup Nearly Wiped Out Terrapins. Then Prohibition Saved Them

Posted on July 18, 2019 by Shoshi Parks | 0 Comments

From NPR By the turn of the 20th century, America’s love affair with Diamondback Terrapin soup — a subsistence food turned gourmet fare — had left the turtle’s population teetering. Booze ban to the rescue. (Image credit: Jesse D. Eriksen/Getty…

New Zealand's Ardern says plight of Pacific Islanders should spur climate action

Posted on July 18, 2019 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

FILE PHOTO: New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks at the Istana in Singapore, May 17, 2019. REUTERS/Feline LimMELBOURNE (Reuters) - Climate change is having a real impact on Pacific islanders and that should spur countries to greater action to…

Japanese town celebrates first whale catch of the season

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MINAMIBOSO, Japan (Reuters) - As Misako Komiya watched a crew of men in rubber boots peeling skin and blubber off a whale with long knives, she was already planning how to prepare the five kilos (10 lbs) of meat she…

Bangladesh floods worsen after breach, death toll nears 100 in India

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DHAKA/GUWAHATI, INDIA (Reuters) - One of Bangladesh’s main rivers breached an embankment, flooding a northern district and forcing thousands from their homes, an official said on Thursday, as the toll from monsoon rains in neighboring India climbed to 97 in…

Video of pilot whales rescued on U.S. East Coast viewed around the world

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Atlanta (Reuters) - Dozens of beachgoers and lifeguards battled to help a pod of pilot whales back into deeper waters after coming too close to the shore of the U.S. state of Georgia earlier this week, although authorities said that…

Electric car models to triple in Europe by 2021

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From BBC The number of electric car models available to consumers in Europe is expected to triple by 2021, says a European environmental lobby group. The uptake of electric cars has been stalling, blamed on a lack of charging infrastructure…

Ofwat calls for £12 billion boost to water network investment

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(Reuters) - Britain’s water regulator on Thursday called for the country’s utilities to invest the equivalent of 6 million pounds every day for the next five years in plans to reduce pollution and leakages in increasingly stressed UK infrastructure. The…

India's monsoon rains below average in past week, raising crop worries

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MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India’s monsoon rains were 20% below average in the week ending on Wednesday, the weather office said, as summer showers turned patchy over the central, western and southern parts of the country, raising concerns over the…