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Arsenic: when will the clean water start flowing?
Many new technologies have promised to remove arsenic from drinking water but little has changed on the ground, finds T. V. Padma.
FEATURE | 24 November 2009 | EN
Floating toilets may cut river illnesses
Persuading Cambodian river-dwellers to use a newly designed floating toilet instead of the river could cut soaring diarrhoea rates.
FEATURE | 14 July 2009 | EN
Nanotechnology for clean water: Facts and figures
Nanotechnology could help give millions clean drinking water. David J. Grimshaw outlines the potential, the progress and some of the risks.
Nanosponges: South Africa's high hopes for clean water
Can nanosponges solve a continent's water contamination problems? Munyaradzi Makoni investigates.
Farming without soil
Is hydroponics — a system using no soil and very little water — a route to increased food security? Some Cape Verdean farmers think so.
FEATURE | 6 March 2009 | EN
Tibetan plateau melts in the face of climate change
The Tibetan plateau is feeling the effects of climate change, with glacial retreat and permafrost degradation among the effects.
Clay filters clean up in Sri Lanka
A low-tech clay water filter is proving successful in Sri Lanka, cutting disease levels and saving on fuel costs.
FEATURE | 15 July 2008 | EN
Can crops be climate-proofed?
Climate change threatens food crops across the world. Now scientists are re-focusing their efforts on crop resilience, rather than yields.
Hindsight on African rainfall forecasts
Anthony Patt, Laban Ogallo, and Molly Hellmuth look back over ten years of Climate Outlook Forums for rainfall prediction in Africa.
FEATURE | 9 October 2007 | EN
Pollution control key to beating China's algal blooms
Controlling the amount of pollution that goes into China's Taihu Lake is the key to managing the algal blooms, writes Lucie Guo.
Africa and climate change: Adapt, survive, thrive?
Faced with a changing climate, projects to help Africans adapt are springing up across the continent, reports Patrick Luganda.
FEATURE | 1 August 2007 | EN
Getting to the root of killer dust storms
Dust storms in China have been increasing, but a project in Bayinhushu shows how to reduce them, reports Dennis Normile.
The taste of success: desalination on an Indian island
The plunging shorelines of islands in an Indian archipelago are key to a novel desalination process, reports Yudhijit Bhattacharjee.
FEATURE | 2 July 2007 | EN
Uganda opens floodgates to hydropower
Uganda is planning a new dam on the Nile, but critics say smaller, cheaper options have not been given a chance, writes Xan Rice.
'Green dams' could cut greenhouse gas emissions
Tim Hirsch reports on a method of extracting methane from hydroelectric dams to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Tainted water: South Asia's poisonous problem
The slow response of South Asia to the crisis triggered by arsenic-laced water has cost thousands of lives, reports Yudhijit Bhattacherjee.
Seeds of change: rebuilding a Brazilian rainforest
Scientists have embarked on an ambitious plan to restore the ecosystems of Brazil's Atlantic rainforest devastated by deforestation, reports Bernice Wuethrich.
FEATURE | 23 February 2007 | EN
How to rehydrate a peatland rainforest
Lucy Williamson reports on the problems faced by a project to rehabilitate Indonesia's depleted peatland rainforests.
Hydropower: a greenhouse gas culprit?
Tropical reservoirs might release more greenhouse gas than fossil-fuel power stations — a potential blow to future hydropower projects.
Sharing the burden of flood forecasts in Asia
Flood-prone Asian nations are starting to share information that could help save lives but this exchange needs to be more open to be effective, reports Navin Singh Khadka.
FEATURE | 25 August 2005 | EN
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