Gabrielle Agachiko Kenya, Africa & Massachusetts, USA When The Water Is Gone – Lyric by Gabrielle Agachiko, Music by Cara Smith “Weʼll see what happens, when the well runs dry When we canʼt wash or swim or cry Then weʼll realize, but much too late To undo, shift or reverse When the water is gone […]
Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose, right? When a coal plant on North Carolina’s Dan River spilled a massive amount of coal ash last week, the state officials in charge of the environment said at the time that arsenic levels in the water were nothing to get worried about. Whoops: N.C. environmental […]
The Aral Sea is one of the largest saline lakes in the world, and a fascinating part of the geography of Central Asia. Because the USSR diverted the rivers that feed it in order to support massive desert irrigation projects, the Sea has been drying up. It’s pretty ugly: T The primary effect of the […]
India is full of important religious sites, which attract thousands of devoted pilgrims each year. Last year a massive flood devastated mountain villages in Uttarakhand, a state in the country’s Himalayan North. How did this happen? Glacial lakes have fed India’s rivers for thousands of years, melting just enough to fill the streams that run […]
After the recent release of 7,500 gallons of coal-treatment chemicals into their water supply, a whole lot of people in West Virginia were apparently taken by surprise to discover that their water wasn’t safe to drink any more. Some people, however, haven’t been putting that stuff in their mouths for decades. Joe Stanley, a 64-year-old […]