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How Salt Can Predict Rain. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water. Headlines: A rare “triple” La Niña could bring another year of strong hurricanes and drought to the U.S. Faraway oceans can be a tool for farmers in the U.S. Midwest to know when to plant, fertilize—or prepare for floods. A startup in Finland just built a battery out of sand—and it's dirt cheap. Fin whale...

A Way to Combat Climate Change That the Supreme Court Can't Stop. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water. Headlines: A tool to fight climate change has been stripped away by conservative Supreme Court justices. California has enacted the country’s most far-reaching law on single-use plastics and packaging. Lightning strikes, a tossed cigarette butt, or a downed power lin...

Feds Give States Just 60 Days to Act. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water. Headlines: Western states must agree on cuts to their allocations of Colorado River water by mid-August—or it will be decided for them. So-called “forever” chemicals are far more dangerous to humans than previously thought, according to the EPA. How do elephant seals see in the dark? They use t...

Can We Worm Our Way Out of Our Plastic Pollution Problem? That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water. Headlines: The White House proclaimed June to be National Ocean Month and announced several initiatives. Scientists have found a "superworm" that eats—and can survive on—polystyrene. The Great Salt Lake in Utah is a ticking time bomb of environmental disaster. A metal disc—t...

Congress Appears Pumped to Fight Climate Change. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water. Headlines: Congressional support for heat pumps could help consumers cut energy bills and carbon. Scientists might have discovered the largest living organism on Earth. This weed's seeds use parachutes to travel up to 60 miles. Scientists have turned food waste into edible cement.

How Golfers Can “Eat Their Greens.” That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water. Headlines: Study: Focus more on methane and other pollutants to give Earth a fighting chance at beating climate change. Concerns leap over invasive jumping worms that pose a huge threat to forests and residential gardens. The Great Green Wall—an ambitious project that would plant billions of tree...

Ships that Run on Ocean Plastic. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water. Headlines: A group of Utah lawmakers voted to study a plan to pump seawater about 700 miles from the Pacific Ocean to the Great Salt Lake. Ship of fuels—two companies are developing vessels that can make hydrogen from ocean plastic. The Internet of Things is growing exponentially and some researcher...

The Not-So-Sweet Side of Sugar. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water. Headlines: A long and salty battle in California has ended with the state's Coastal Commission unanimously rejecting a desalination plant in Orange County. The sugar industry has a sweetheart deal in Florida that critics say is polluting air and water. Cleaner air in Europe and North America has led...

Using Old Face Masks to Cut Carbon. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water. Headlines: Lake Mead on the Colorado River fell to an unprecedented level—below an intake pipe that supplies water to Las Vegas. The climate crisis is causing such dramatic changes to the oceans that a mass extinction of marine species could occur. There might be a concrete solution to vast amoun...

Denver Is Using Its Sewage to Fight Climate Change. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water. Headlines: On Earth Day, the White House announced an effort to inventory and protect old-growth forests. The Biden administration seeks to save nuclear power plants. Is the energy source the lesser of two evils? Climate change could mean bigger populations of smaller bees. Denver...

We gladly recycle our aluminum and paper with the expectation it gets repurposed into something new. But the idea that our human waste that we flush down the toilet would get reused somehow might make us wrinkle our noses. Not so for the city of Boulder’s wastewater treatment folks who see sewage as a valuable resource.

Cacti Are in a Prickly Situation. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water. Headlines: Linking global water security as tied to national security, the Biden administration is considering a plan to ensure America’s supplies. A solution for the unsustainable mining of sand might also solve another huge environmental problem. Climate change could put up to 90 percent of cactu...

Turning Plastic into a Climate Solution. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water. Headlines: IPCC report: We have the tools to combat the climate crisis. Researchers find that plastic waste is good at grabbing carbon dioxide. Cargo ships are secretly dumping oily and toxic wastewater into the oceans. Science has found a way to have less ice in your ice cream.

Using Garbage to Break Ties with Russia. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water. Headlines: The cryptocurrency industry uses massive amounts of energy, but one campaign says they can cut its electricity demand by 99 percent. Sea cucumbers—high value, low charisma, and vulnerable to crime. Europe plans to cut reliance on Russian energy with more wind and solar but also wa...

A Vegetable That Can Clean Drinking Water. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water. Headlines: A sinkhole discovered under the Arctic Ocean is a climate wildcard for the planet. Warming oceans are causing noise to travel faster and last longer. Microplastics have been found in human blood for the first time. If you want clean water, then will you come to love okra.

Rivers and Lakes Are Still Polluted 50 Years After the Clean Water Act. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water. Headlines: Former EPA officials reveal that a failure of enforcement of the Clean Water Act has left many waterways contaminated. There is growing concern that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could cause a “hurricane of hunger and a meltdown of the global food sys...

Kite Energy Might Start to Soar. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water. Headlines: The Amazon may be reaching a tipping point, where it becomes a grassy savannah and forests can’t return. If you have a cat, you might be unwittingly feeding it endangered shark meat. The invasion of Ukraine has underscored the urgency of getting off fossil fuels. One renewable solution mi...

Putin’s War in Ukraine Freezes Arctic Research. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water. Headlines: The IPCC report out last week says we must act this decade to save ourselves from the worst impacts of climate change. “It looks like Iron Curtain 2 has come down between us,” according to one oceanographer. The room erupted in cheers and applause last week after world lead...

The Environmental Consequences of the War in Ukraine. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water. Headlines: There will be impacts to the environment following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Wildfires are becoming more intense, frequent, and occurring in places never before affected, according to a new UN study. The International Energy Agency says governments are underreport...

Tips from the Bible on Eating Sustainably. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water. Headlines: A new report says sea level rise along U.S. coastlines is accelerating and will go up by about one foot by 2050. Drugs are polluting the world's rivers, posing a serious threat to human and environmental health. The worst megadrought in the U.S. West happened in the late 1500s,...

Generating Power While Saving Water. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water. Headlines: At a global conference to protect oceans, fishing operations were likened to organized crime. About one in three people in the U.S. have detectable levels of a toxic herbicide in their bodies. A “first-in-the-nation” solar project could also save significant amounts of water. Swamp-dw...

A Guilt-Free Shower–Even in Droughts? That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water. Headlines: Oceans are warming rapidly. The South Atlantic passed the point of no return 24 years ago. As the earth warms, demand for air conditioning will increase and could trigger blackouts, a new study predicts. If people can't get their butts off the ground, this crow will. Imagine taking a...

A Setback for Oil and Gas. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water. Headlines: A federal judge canceled oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico citing climate change. U.S. water systems are vulnerable to hackers, so the Biden administration has announced plans to deliver cybersecurity technology. A company is floating a plan to use buoys to keep idling ships from emittin...

A Winter Olympics Without Any Real Snow. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water. Headlines: The volcanic eruption near Tonga could cause long-lasting damage to coral reefs, coastlines, and fisheries. Scientists say we've now crossed a red line for the amount of plastics and other chemical pollutants to live safely on Earth. There's a snowball's chance of finding real sno...

Drug-Resistant Bacteria Found in Sewer Water. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water. Headlines: Nebraska has fired a first shot in what looks to be a water war with Colorado. A gene that causes bacteria to be resistant to one of the world’s most important antibiotics has been detected in sewer water. As birds and mammals migrate to cooler territory because of climate ch...