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Big Copper and Gold Mine Near Alaska’s Bristol Bay, Q&A with EarthTalk
What’s the background of the controversy over whether to allow development of a big copper and gold mine near Alaska’s Bristol Bay?–C. Karo, Pittsburgh, PA Environmentalists, fishermen and Native Americans breathed a sigh of relief in 2014 when the Obama administration invoked a rarely used provision in the Clean Water Act to block the proposed…
Continue reading →Desalination of Ocean Water, Q&A with EarthTalk
If the world is running out of fresh water, why aren’t we desalinating more ocean water?–H. Smith, Providence, RI The protagonist of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s 1798 lyrical ballad The Rime of the Ancient Mariner proclaims: “Water water everywhere / nor any drop to drink” as his ship drifts through Antarctic seas with no land or…
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