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Ghanas Waste Crisis: Fueled by the Wests Unwanted Fashion
2021-09-08 08:00:00| Waste Age
Ghanas capital city, Accra, is home to West Africas biggest secondhand clothing exchange: Kantamanto markets, a bustling labyrinth of 5,000 retailers and their timber stalls, many of them overflowing with the Wests unwant
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Shrill Review: Lindy Wests Book Is Now a Portlandia-y TV Show
2019-03-15 23:48:20| PortlandOnline
Suzette Smith in the Portland Mercury, March 14, 2019
These Are the Forgotten Victims of the West's Drought
2016-09-18 04:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Last summer Nevada was so dry that rancher Darryl Brady grabbed a shovel and hacked into a dusty pit, once a lush spring that gurgled onto fields thick with wild hay. The snows hadn't come to the mountains and the river was dry, so Brady was desperately trying to tap into the earth's watery veins to save his herd of about 85 cattle. But it was a failure; the earth had no water to give. "I remember when I was a kid it would rain and we used to have puddles out here," Brady said wistfully. "These...
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Unabated global warming threatens West's snowpack, water supply
2016-06-08 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inside Climate News: The snowpack in the Sierra Nevada, as well as mountains across the West, has been shrinking and threatening water supply as the globe warms. Low-elevation snowpack across the Rocky Mountains, the Sierra Nevada and the Cascades will disappear in the coming decades if global warming continues unabated, according to a new study. The changes will cause water shortages in the region and dry out forests and grasslands, the study's authors say. According to the research, the snow line--the altitude...
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Unplugging the Colorado River: Could the end be near for one of the Wests biggest dams?
2016-05-23 23:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: WEDGED between Arizona and Utah, less than 20 miles upriver from the Grand Canyon, a soaring concrete wall nearly the height of two football fields blocks the flow of the Colorado River. There, at Glen Canyon Dam, the river is turned back on itself, drowning more than 200 miles of plasma-red gorges and replacing the Colorados free-spirited rapids with an immense lake of flat, still water called Lake Powell, the nations second-largest reserve. When Glen Canyon Dam was built in the middle of the...