By CARLOS VALDEZ (AP) LA PAZ, Bolivia — Evaporation blamed on global warming has reduced Lake Titicaca, one of the world’s highest navigable lakes, to its lowest level since 1949, authorities said Thursday. Diminished rainfall and a rise in solar radiation have in the past four years led to critically low water levels that now [...]
Mapping Evapotranspiration Wins Innovations in American Government Award
Innovation Honored by Harvard Kennedy School`s Ash Institute for Improving Understanding of Water Usage in Agriculture CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (Reuters Business Wire) [wp_geo_map] The Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University today announced Idaho`s Mapping Evapotranspiration program as a 2009 Innovations in American Government Award [...]
World's major rivers 'drying up'
Matt McGrath, the BBC’s environment reporter studies a recent report published by the American Meteorological Society’s (AMS) Journal of Climate. From the Yellow river in northern China to the Ganges in India to the Colorado river in the United States – the US scientists say that the major sources of fresh water for much of [...]
