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As lakes become deserts, drought is Iran's new problem

2015-03-21 07:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Agence France-Presse: Nazar Sarani's village in southeast Iran was once an island. It is now a desert, a casualty of the country's worsening water crisis. "We live in the dust," said the 54-year-old cattle herder of his home in the once exceptional biosphere of Lake Hamoun, a wetland of varied flora and fauna, which is now nothing but sand-baked earth. Climate change, with less rainfall each year, is blamed, but so too is human error and government mismanagement. Iran's reservoirs are only 40 percent full according...

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Long-rumored Publix confirmed for Shoppes at Trinity Lakes in Pasco County

2015-03-14 02:23:37| Grocery - Topix.net

Sembler Co. has confirmed that Publix Super Markets Inc. will anchor its Shoppes at Trinity Lake development.

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Ice conditions causing concern for Great Lakes shipping industry

2015-02-28 08:08:18| Chemicals - Topix.net

In this photo taken Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015, the crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Bristol Bay backs down from a wall of ice as it prepares to ram the wall in efforts to clear a path into Ashtabula, Ohio. For the second consecutive winter, bitter weather threatens to turn the surface of the Great Lakes into a vast frozen plain.

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Salty lakes across Prairies storing carbon from the atmosphere: Study

2015-02-26 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Canadian Press: New research suggests salty lakes common across the Prairie landscape are having different climate change effects than those with softer water. The paper, published in the journal Nature, says lakes in northern latitudes with hard, alkaline water are now helping remove carbon from the atmosphere instead of releasing it. What`s more, climate change itself is exaggerating the effect, said co-author Kerri Finlay of the University of Regina. "They started off like the soft-water lakes -- they...

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UGA Researchers To Use Crowdsourcing To Track Harmful Algal Blooms In Georgia's Lakes

2015-02-26 01:45:43| pollutiononline Home Page

In August 2014, dangerous levels of a toxin produced by harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie compromised the water supply in Toledo, Ohio, as well as many other smaller cities and towns.

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