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Mapping Earth`s soil moisture with NASA
Professor Dara Entekhabi from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is to lead a science team designing a NASA satellite mission to collect global soil moisture measurements and other data seen as key to improving weather, flood and drought forecasts and predictions of agricultural productivity and climate change. At present, scientists have no network for gathering soil moisture data as they do for rainfall, winds, humidity and temperature. Instead, that data is gathered only at a few scattered points around the world. But NASA`s Soil Moisture Active-Passive mission (SMAP), ... |
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With more research, desalination could boost US water supplies
Recent advances in technology have made removing salt from seawater and groundwater a realistic option for increasing water supplies in some parts of the US and desalination will likely have a niche in meeting the nation`s future water needs, says a new report from the National Research Council. However, a coordinated research effort with steady funding is required to better understand and minimize desalination`s environmental impacts - and find ways to further lower its costs and energy use. `Uncertainties about desalination`s environmental impacts are currently a significant barrier to ... |
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- Wind power helps Texas town desalinate groundwater
The first project in the United States to use wind power to desalinate drinking water for an inland municipality rather than a coastal town has just received ...
- US orders retailers to pull illegal pesticides
For the safety of consumers, the US EPA has asked nine national retail chains to remove illegal, unregistered and misbranded pesticides distributed by ...
- HRG acquires Alliance Environmental
Herbert, Rowland & Grubic, Inc. (HRG) (Harrisburg, PA), a full-service engineering firm serving the Mid-Atlantic region, announced that it has acquired ...
- Survey finds Bush administration `interfering` with EPA scientists
The Bush administration has `frequently meddled with scientists` at the US Environmental Protection Agency, according to a survey released by a scientific ...
- British coalition seeks to block quarry in Peak District national park
The Longstone Edge Coalition is asking the British government to provide an urgent rescue package to enable the Peak District National Park in Derbyshire ...
- Environment agency offers free slurry advice to Welsh farmers
Environment Agency Wales is offering Welsh farmers free advice about slurry storage and spreading. Slurry is an important fertiliser source, and good ...
- Solvay hails French soil remediation conference a success
The `Focused remedies for a well-managed remediation` conference was held in the Soda Ash plant at Dombasle, in which the Solution Unit Soil Remediation ...
- UN to assist African farmers threatened by climate change
Some 10,000 farmers in five African countries, where crops are expected to be badly affected by climate change, are to receive help from the United Nations ...
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