Achieving Water Security, Part 3: Striving for “Blue Peace” in the Eastern Himalayas
Toward a True India-Bangladesh Joint Rivers Commission. By Anumita Raj Editors Note: Our previous installments on water security and transboundary waters (here and here), have included discussions of shared water resources as a vehicle for peaceful relations between...
CAFOs 101
First in a Series about Animals, Agriculture and the Environment. What is a CAFO? First, let’s parse. A CAFO is a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation. Some call it a Confined Animal Feeding Operation. You are already getting the idea. “Feeding operation”...
“Gangster Fish” by Nick D. Kim
Nick D. Kim is a cartoonist, environmental chemist and lecturer whose website, Strange-Matter.net, is “an archive of largely satisfactory science & other cartoons.” His companion site Parallel.net is “about life in a highly improbable (yet...
The Struggle to Achieve Water Security, Part Two
Alexandra Dapolito Dunn Reports from World Justice Forum IV. By Alexandra Dapolito Dunn Editor’s Note: Alex Dunn’s follow-up to her first post from World Justice Forum IV at The Hague underscores EarthDesk’s recent coverage of global water issues: part...
Lying and Tigers and Bears . . .
On September 24, 1980, two days after a Siberian Tiger killed his best friend Bob Wilson, my brother Jim stood in a driving English storm outside his trailer home at Howlett’s Zoo Park and howled his horror to the Canterbury countryside. As if the night winds would...
Alexandra Dapolitio Dunn Reports from World Justice Forum IV at The Hague
Perspectives on the Rule of Law and the Environment. Justice Anthony Kennedy on Law, Dignity and Freedom. By Alexandra Dapolito Dunn I am privileged to send this post from The Hague, the Netherlands. The Hague is the political center of the Netherlands but also the...
Water Is a Women’s Issue
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The Great Trans-Atlantic Beach Plague
The United States is not the only developed nation plagued by summertime beach closures, even after decades of laws requiring treatment of sewage. Hundreds of beaches in England do not not make the grade as well, according to The Guardian newspaper. On July 1,...
Environmental Policy Clinic Students at Work.
Preparing oyster shells for tagging at the Billion Oyster Project, Governor's Island.
With New York State Senator Terrence Murphy (center) in Albany to discuss state policy regarding mistreatment of elephants in circuses.
Investigating turtle mortality on a Putnam County highway in Cold Spring, NY with county legislator Barbara Scuccimarra (L.).
Learning the fundamentals of aquaculture at the New York Harbor School.
Demonstrating against the use of elephants in circuses, Hanneford Circus, White Plains, NY.
Crafting oyster regulation policy with Debbie Mans, NY-NJ Baykeeper, Pace, NYC. (L.).
Ready to dig into wood chip pile to feed campus composter, Pace, Pleasantville.
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