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March 4 : scientists, students, and society
Based on talks and events from March 4, 1969, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, when students and scientists gathered, concerned about the misuse of science; included the Union of Concerned Scientists.
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Environmental flows in the Rio Grande - Rio Bravo basin
The Rio Grande/Bravo is an arid river basin shared by the United States and Mexico, the fifth-longest river in North America, and home to more than 10.4 million people. By crossing landscapes and political boundaries, the Rio Grande/Bravo brings together cultures, societies, ecosystems, and economies, thereby forming a complex social-ecological system. The Rio Grande/Bravo supplies water for the human activities that take place within its territory. While there have been efforts to implement environmental flows (flows necessary to sustain riparian and aquatic ecosystems and human activities), a systematic and whole-basin analysis of these efforts that conceptualizes the Rio Grande/Bravo as a single, complex social-ecological system is missing. Our objective is to address this research and policy gap and shed light on challenges, opportunities, and success stories for implementing environmental flows in the Rio Grande/Bravo. We introduce the physical characteristics of the basin and summarize the environmental flows studies already done. We also describe its water governance framework and argue it is a distributed and nested governance system across multiple political jurisdictions and spatial scales. We describe the environmental flows legal framework and argue that the authority over different aspects of environmental flows is divided across different agencies and institutions. We discuss the prioritization of agricultural use within the governance structure without significant provisions for environmental flows. We introduce success stories for implementing environmental flows that include leasing of water rights or voluntary releases for environmental flow purposes, municipal ordinances to secure water for environmental flows, nongovernmental organizations representing the environment in decision-making processes, and acquiring water rights for environmental flows, among others initiatives. We conclude that environmental flows are possible and have been implemented but their implementation has not been systematic and permanent. There is an emerging whole-basin thinking among scientists, managers, and citizens that is helping find common-ground solutions to implementing environmental flows in the Rio Grande/Bravo basin.
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Fukushima : the story of a nuclear disaster
\"In the first definitive account of the Fukushima disaster, two leading experts from the Union of Concerned Scientists ... team up with journalist Susan Q. Stranahan ... to tell this harrowing story, [which] combines [an] ... account of the tsunami and the nuclear emergency it created with an explanation of the science and technology behind the meltdown as it unfolded in real time\"--Amazon.com.
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Calming Russia's nuclear insecurity
At the St. Petersburg summit, [Bush] should propose to [Vladimir Putin] that their governments construct a joint plan, with targets and timetables, to secure the entire Russian nuclear weapons complex, and to render Russia's nuclear materials unusable for weapons. Bush has the opportunity at hand to swiftly reduce the threat posed by the Russian stockpile--to shut off in a matter of years, not decades, the most dangerous resource for nuclear terrorism facing this country.
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CAN'T DELAY ON GLOBAL WARMING
As a result of our over-reliance on fossil fuels, we are releasing billions of tons of heat-trapping gases, such as carbon dioxide, into the atmosphere that are changing our climate. If not checked, these changes will have a significant impact on our environment and our way of life. This threat is real, and it is already here. Recently, more than 1,500 of the world's senior scientists, including more than 100 Nobel laureates and the majority of living Nobel laureates in science, issued the World Scientists' Call for Action at the Kyoto Climate Change Conference. These distinguished scientists are urging all government leaders of the 160 nations that will attend the December Kyoto conference to demonstrate a new commitment to the protection of our global environment. Because scientists by nature are a cautious group and reluctant to make bold pronouncements, these declarations leave little doubt as to the urgency of the situation.
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It Is Simply Not Possible to Evacuate All Those at Risk
The Post's editorial \"Nuclear Power and the Governors\" [Nov. 7] overlooks the reason that the Shoreham and Seabrook nuclear plants have been sources of intense public controversy for more than a decade. The governors object because these nuclear plants are located in the midst of captive population centers, in places where no rational regulatory system would have allowed nuclear plants to be built.
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SUVS TAKE CONSUMERS FOR A RIDE
With another summer vacation season now under way, more Americans than ever will begin their treks by scaling and maneuvering Mt. SUV-- that ever-popular mound of metal, the sport utility vehicle. SUVs now make up half of the new cars sold in the United States (just peek in your rear-view mirror). What many drivers don't realize, however, is that SUVs are also Public Enemy No. 1 when it comes to the environment.
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TIME TO MAKE EARTH DAY PRESIDENTIAL THE ENVIRONMENT SHOULD BECOME A CAMPAIGN PRIORITY
Throughout the past year weather headlines have proclaimed disaster upon disaster. These dangerous and often unpredictable conditions, including Hurricane Floyd's unrelenting floods, the Northeast's battle against the mosquito-borne illness encephalitis/ West Nile fever, last summer's suffocating heat wave and this winter's record warmth, may or may not be related to the century- long global warming trend. But if emissions of greenhouse gases are not controlled, these conditions could well provide a window into our future.
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