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Tag Archives: rivers
Drought tolerant plants
Microbes living in and on the roots of plants keep them healthy just as the human gut microbes do. During drought conditions, plants increase the microbes which help them stay alive in drought conditions. Researchers have found they can inject … Continue reading
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Tagged biology of plants, crops, drought, floods, food insecurity, genetics, global food shortage, microbes, research, rivers, seed banks, soil, threats, trade
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Freshwater availability shrinking as we make perverse decisions
Globally, around 80 percent of freshwater is used for food production and agriculture. Out of all the water covering the earth, only 2 percent is fresh. That remaining 10 to 20 percent is set aside for industry. Urban Africa, with … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, climate warming, drought, famine, freshwater, glacier melt, industry, lake algae blooms, lake shrinking, lakes, rivers
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Redirecting floodwater into aquifer
For some years now the pattern of drought followed by flooding is experienced in many countries. Serious reduction in water levels in aquifers causes drinking water shortages. It is therefore necessary to build a system which directs flood waters into … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, aquifers, california, climate change, dams, drinking water, drought, Farming, food supply chains, hydrology, livestock, Mexico City, rivers, wildlife, world drought, world food
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Will we be Fishless?: VI
How Fish are Exposed to Pesticides Fish and aquatic animals are exposed to pesticides in three primary ways (1) dermally, direct absorption through the skin by swimming in pesticide-contaminated waters, (2) breathing, by direct uptake of pesticides through the gills … Continue reading
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Tagged benthos, environment, Farming, glyphosate, health, pesticides, rivers, soil
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Will we be Fishless?: Part V
A recent study has illustrated that even Mother Nature with her volcanoes (there are approximately 1,500 known, active volcanoes worldwide) is adding higher levels of mercury than she has to date. There are an unknown number of volcanoes on the … Continue reading
Will we be Fishless soon?: Part II
I often see livestock standing happily in rivers and streams. They are innocent, the farmers are not. We learned centuries ago that livestock, particulary dead livestock, in water courses leads to contamination of all water which was once running pure … Continue reading
We will be Fishless soon?: Part One
Most of us owe our existence to fish that swam in abundance in rivers, seas and oceans thousands of years ago. We are now responsible for killing fish to the point of extinction; killing the oceanic life, destroying healthy water … Continue reading
Movement of People of the African Sahara
I have been particularly interested in finding out why people migrated out of Africa, but there is also the story of those who remained. The adaptable indigenous human, always so ingenious in the most hostile environments. Yet becoming part of … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, aquifer, arabian, desert, ice age, megalithic, migration, nomads, paleolithic, rainfall, rivers, sahara, survival, water, weather patterns
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The Language of the Watershed
I was relaxing watching ‘The Lord of the Kings’ Trilogy this past week whilst wintry weather raged around our cottage. It seemed to me that Tolkien was using the landscape of Scotland to invent his mythological Hobbit landscape. I then … Continue reading
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Tagged burns, fells, Highlands, hills, James VI Scotland, Language of landscape, lochs, Lord of the Rings, mountains, rivers, Scottish Borders, Tolkien, tributaries
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