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A Sea Creature That Lives Forever. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water. Headlines: Will the green prince be a green king? Every tenth of a degree counts, so there is still time to avoid climate tipping points. Immortality is fiction, of course—unless you’re Turritopsis dohrnii. California is turning to a creature once hunted nearly to extinction and maligned as a nuis...

Powering Your Car with a Lobster. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water. Headlines: “Today, it is Pakistan. Tomorrow, it could be your country.” The crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, where tens of thousands have been without clean water, shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. Fifty years ago, ads said to “put a tiger in your tank," but now it might be a crab, shrimp, or lobst...

Turning Wind Turbines into Gummy Bears. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water. Headlines: Diplomats from around the world have failed to reach an agreement (again) on protecting marine life on the high seas. If you had to guess, which do you think could produce more lettuce—a rural farm or an urban garden? Old wind turbines could one day be recycled into diapers, counte...

This “Lightning” Could Power the Grid. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water. Headlines: “We needed a deal yesterday.” The Colorado River crisis continues, as the feds talked tough but did little. So-called “forever” chemicals may not last forever after all. These artificial leaves can produce clean fuels from sunlight and water. Electrifying the grid...with a pickup tr...

Too Little Water in California? How About Too Much. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water. Headlines: A new study warns of megafloods in California—a disaster that seems implausible as the state confronts a historic megadrought. Composting is an easy way to keep landfills from being a climate disaster. “Old-growth grasslands” have been an overlooked climate solution. Bu...

Jamie Sudler of H2O Radio discusses water in the West and climate change on the news program Connections on KGNU in Boulder, Colorado.

To Make This Battery Work, Just Add Water. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water. Headlines: To avoid a calamitous “dead pool,” the Colorado River needs a plumber. Setting aside farmland for nature—or “rewilding”—can boost biodiversity and even increase crop yields. To make a battery that would be nontoxic and biodegradable, researchers made one out of paper. Earth is s...

One Solution to the Climate Crisis is a Pane in the Glass. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water. Headlines: Floods in St. Louis and Kentucky came from storms that regenerated and linked together like train cars, each dumping over the same area. Democrats took aim at the climate crisis with a bill that was crafted with the help of Senator Joe Manchin, who agreed after s...

Going Outside…How Hot Is Too Hot? That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water. Headlines: Biden called climate change a clear and present danger but not an emergency...yet. Lake Mead on the Colorado River has lost 27 feet since last year and 45 feet since 2020—and predicting future water flows just got harder. People are not prepared for the risk excessive heat will pose to t...

How Aspirin Can Fight the Pain of Climate Change. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water. Headlines: Sequoias in Yosemite National Park were saved from wildfire, but a new study says other California’s trees are dying and might not return. A dairy farmer in Washington state has shown that we can worm our way toward a climate solution. “Take two aspirin and call me in the...

One of latest trends in the beauty industry is to keep the large volume of waste that salons generate out of landfills. Looking good now means being sustainable. A handful of companies are collecting the hard-to-recycle beauty items, but once they leave salons they seem to disappear into a black hole—or rather a green hole—destination unknown. Should we care?

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...