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Showing posts with label water resources. Show all posts
Showing posts with label water resources. Show all posts

4/23/20

PRINCE ALBERT II of MONACO FOUNDATION


LA TIMES - ENVIRONMENT : PRINCE ALBERT II INTERVIEW - CAMPAIGN TO SAVE THE PLANET

Excerpt: As head of state, Prince Albert II of Monaco, son of Prince Rainier III and Hollywood actress Grace Kelly, has made ocean research and conservation a priority through his government and his private foundation, the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation.  Since 2006, the foundation has supported some 530 projects around the world, at a cost of 62 million euros ($68 million), to address climate change, biodiversity and the protection of endangered species, and water resource management.

2/9/15

SUB GLACIAL LAKES OF GREENLAND ARE MISSING BILLIONS OF GALLONS OF WATER

ABC - MYSTERY OF GREENLANDS DISAPPEARING LAKES

EXCERPT:  Scientists are baffled after two lakes in Greenland were mysteriously drained of billions of gallons of water.

One lake was so large that a mile-wide crater was left behind after it was drained in the span of a few weeks. Another sub-glacial lake has been filled and emptied twice in the last two years. ... Ian Howat, a professor at Ohio State University, who studied the lake that left behind a mile-wide crater, said the findings of the study were "catastrophic."
 
Siren here!
 
.... TAKE A LOOK AT THIS SITE WITH MAPS OF THE MISSING LAKES!