Kenya: Ongata Rongai boom town destroyed two vital rivers – new study flags a major health risk: Over the past 10 years, Ongata Rongai, a satellite town on the edge of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, has experienced uncontrolled development and exponential population growth. Because of its appealing location close to the city, it’s jumped from just …
Trees, rivers and mountains are gaining legal status – but it’s not been a quick fix for environmental problems: The Whanganui River, New Zealand. Wirestock Creators/Shutterstock As the scale and severity of environmental issues become more obvious, lawmakers are experimenting with new ways to protect nature. One approach that has gone from blue-sky debate to …
Don’t just wait for the water firms – three things we can do right now to clean up Britain’s rivers: Simon Corrall / shutterstock Britain’s rivers and coasts are polluted – there’s no escaping that fact – and water companies are coming under more and more pressure to fix things. Most recently, a law firm …
920 million people could face conflict over the world’s rivers by 2050: what our study found in Africa: The Blue Nile river passes through the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. Eduardo Soteras/AFP via Getty Images The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam project on the Nile River started operating in February 2022. It reinforced tensions between Ethiopia, Sudan …
Unprecedented marine heatwave underlines the urgency to clean up UK rivers and coasts: Seagrass meadows are an important part of the UK’s marine environment. Benjamin Jones/Project Seagrass, Author provided Thousands of people took to the UK’s seas and rivers recently in a nationwide “paddle-out” protest to demand an end to sewage spilling into the country’s …
Hundreds of rivers and lakes cross international borders – countries need to commit to sharing the water: The Daube in Serbia, country six of ten. Mita Stock Images The Danube River starts in Germany and eventually flows into the Black Sea some 2,850 kilometres and ten countries later. If Germany were to dam or pollute …
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To clean up England’s rivers we need to know how much sewage is dumped – but water firms won’t tell us: A sewer overflow maintained by United Utilities that flows into the River Tame in Greater Manchester. Jamie Woodward, Author provided UK environment secretary Thérèse Coffey has demanded that water companies share plans for how …
Sacred rivers: Christianity in southern Africa has a deep history of water and ritual: A baptism ceremony in the Mbashe river in South Africa's Eastern Cape province. CARL DE SOUZA/AFP via Getty Images Water is a scarce commodity in much of Africa, particularly in southern Africa. This is well symbolised in the name of the …
Rivers worldwide are running dry – here’s why and what we can do about it: Rivers around the world have been drying up recently. The Loire in France broke records in mid-August for its low water levels, while photos circulating online show the mighty Danube, Rhine, Yangtze and Colorado rivers all but reduced to trickles. …
Giving rivers rights aims to protect the ‘voiceless’ – but there’s a catch: Sudanese demonstrators protest against the construction of the Hidase Dam. Mahmoud Hjaj/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Worldwide there has been a wave of initiatives to grant rivers rights as a way of protecting them – and the communities that rely on them. …
Ukraine war: Russia’s military campaign hindered by the rivers in Donbas: One of the keys to planning a military campaign is to take into account the type of terrain the war will take place on. The frontlines of the Ukraine conflict underline how important this is – they are mainly defined by rivers and other …
Check out this Paternoster image: British Library digitised image from page 61 of “Rambles in East Anglia: or, Holiday excursions among the rivers and broads [With plates.]” Image by The British Library Image taken from: Title: "Rambles in East Anglia: or, Holiday excursions among the rivers and broads [With plates.]" Author(s): Brittain, Harry [person] British …
Hundreds of millions of microplastic particles could be flowing into UK rivers, hidden in raw sewage: Graiff/Shutterstock Microplastics are everywhere. Snow close to the peak of Mount Everest was found to contain on average 30 microplastic particles per litre. And 11,000m below sea level, in the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench, an average of 2,200 microplastic …
South Africa in the news: 15 September declared River Clean-Up Day, Let’s keep our rivers and streams clean: Wednesday the 15th of September 2021 has now been declared national River-Clean-Up Day. Douw Steyn, Sustainability Director of Plastics|SA, explains that rivers and streams are an important part of …: “South Africa” – BingNews Teenage pregnancy during …
South Africa in the news: Action for Responsible Management of Our Rivers: John Carlisle shares an inspiring film and introduction to the work of ARMOUR (Action for Responsible Management of Our Rivers). The World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Risks 2015 report stated: “that …: “South Africa” – BingNews The Latest: J&J vaccines made in Africa …
Why are water companies dumping raw sewage in Britain’s rivers and coastal seas?: There were more than 400,000 discharges of raw sewage in 2020, together lasting more than three million hours, from water companies into rivers in England and Wales. One company, Southern Water, was recently fined a record £90 million for dumping up to …
Check out this Port Elizabeth image: British Library digitised image from page 45 of “Notes of a military reconnaissance from Port Leavenworth in Missouri to San Diego, in California, including parts of the Arkansas, del Norte and Gila Rivers” Image by The British Library Image taken from: Title: "Notes of a military reconnaissance from Port …