Who Drinks the River?
The Colorado's paper allocations exceed its water, and the shortfall has to land on someone. Set the river's flow, choose the allocation rule, and the model computes who gets what.
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The Farmland Atlas
One person's map of where the ground still works. A weighted index of climate, water, land quality and hazards, projected for 2070 under SSP2-4.5, with overlays for people, access and land use. Click anywhere and read the score.
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The Vanishing Mussels
North America had about 300 freshwater mussel species; a tenth are extinct and a third of the rest are listed. Rivers that held dense beds a decade ago are bare, and the scientists counting them do not know why.
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England's Water
After nearly three months with barely any rain, authorities suspended or restricted water abstraction licences for 1,327 farms. Can a wet island run dry, and what does storage, leakage and abstraction law decide?
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Rio Grande
Named in the colorado plan as a candidate for the same engine. Nothing written.
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The Last Quiet Places
The 2001 Roadless Rule covers over 58 million acres of national forest; the proposed rollback would open nearly 59 million. Roads are the irreversible variable in a landscape. What do the quiet places hold, and for whom?
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The Lagoon at Ross Island
Four of the past five summers have brought toxic cyanobacteria blooms to the Willamette in Portland. Researchers say the cause is a man-made lagoon, 120 feet deep from a century of gravel mining, and that restoring the river's flow through it is the fix. What would it take, and who pays?
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