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Feral swine damage water quality, and more
2016-07-08 17:36:00| National Hog Farmer
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture Because feral swine lack sweat glands, wallowing in mud and water is an instinctual behavior necessary for them to maintain a healthy body temperature. Unfortunately this behavior has cascading impacts, not only to water quality in individual streams, ponds and wetlands, but to entire watersheds and ecosystems. read more
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Climate change plagues Madagascar's poor: 'The water rose so fast.'
2016-07-08 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Angenie, 21, lives in a country many people think of as an ecological paradise, home to a unique diversity of plants and animals. Yet within the past three years she has witnessed droughts and floods so severe she has had to flee her home to escape them twice. Angenie grew up in southern Madagascar where, as a child, she remembers things being green. But for the past few years a severe drought, blamed on the devastating effects of El Nio, has gripped the southern region. The land got dry,...
This week in soft drinks & bottled water, featuring Diageo's non-alcoholic spirit buy, hello Coca-Cola Beverages Africa and PepsiCo's CEO here to stay
2016-07-08 15:00:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
Here's a round-up of this week's top stories in the global soft drinks & bottled water categories. We also have similar round-ups for beer & cider and spirits & wine.
Wind, Not Water, to Blame for Drought, Says Study
2016-07-08 14:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Kqed: Since California`s most recent drought began more than four years ago, scientific studies have been helping us better understand the causes and implications. We know now that a lack of precipitation has largely been caused by a very stubborn high-pressure system sitting off the West coast dubbed at one time the Ridiculously Resilient Ridge. Weve also learned that high-pressure systems like this may be the kind of thing well see more of with climate change. A new study published in Geophysical...
Astronomers discover the first water clouds outside our solar system
2016-07-08 14:45:30| Extremetech
Astronomers have produced the first ever evidence of water clouds outside our solar system, and they're on a brown dwarf that's right on our doorstep.
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