Water Pollution
Duke Riley: Grand Master Trash
Riley works in many mediums: The Brooklyn exhibition includes films, decorative installations, mosaics and illustrations, like a vast map of Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal, encompassing its history from precolonial bounty to Dutch settlers through the polluted Superfund site that in 2007 tested positive for gonorrhea. He once took Henry Rollins, the punk eminence, down there, aboard […]
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E.P.A., Reversing Trump, Will Restore States’ Power to Block Pipelines
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Thursday will move to restore authority to states and tribes to veto gas pipelines, coal terminals and other energy projects if they would pollute local rivers and streams, reversing a Trump-era rule that had curtailed that power. For 50 years, the Clean Water Act has given states and tribes […]
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Descending Into Florida’s Underwater Caves
Long before theme parks began sprouting from Orlando’s swamps, Florida’s freshwater springs were among the area’s main attractions. Indigenous Americans made use of the springs for thousands of years before Spanish conquistadors arrived in the 1500s. The conquistadors’ reports of clear water gushing from cavernous holes in forest floors fueled myths about the existence of […]
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Ash From Tonga Volcanic Eruption Still Poses a Threat
Many people in Tonga evaded the powerful waves set off by an undersea volcanic eruption, in some cases by sprinting inland or clambering up trees. But another problem settled over the island nation in a monochromatic blanket: an ash cloud unleashed by the blast. The challenges are both immediate and long-term. First, in the four […]
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Beaches Closed After 8.5 Million Gallons of Sewage Spill in Los Angeles County
About eight and a half million gallons of untreated sewage have spilled into a flood-control waterway in Los Angeles County since Thursday afternoon, prompting at least five beaches to close, an official with the Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts said. “It is a lot,” said Bryan Langpap, a spokesman for the agency. “That’s the biggest […]
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Canada and Indigenous People Settle Over Drinking Water
TORONTO — The Federal Court of Canada approved a multi-billion-dollar legal settlement that requires the government to take swifter action to clean up contaminated drinking water on Indigenous reserves and to compensate First Nations for the decades they have gone without access to clean water. Under the settlement, released by the court late Wednesday, the […]
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India’s Modi Brings Tap Water to Millions as Supplies Shrink
IMLIDOL, India — The pipes are laid, the taps installed and the village tank is under construction — all promising signs that, come spring, Girja Ahriwar will get water at her doorstep and finally shed a lifelong burden. “I go out and put the jerrycans in the queue at around 5 a.m. and wait there […]
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