Circle of Blue
MAY 7, 2025
What a difference a month makes. The forecast for how much water will flow this year into Lake Powell, a bellwether reservoir on the Colorado River, was already meager. Now, after a dry April, its even more miserly. That does not bode well for a basin mired in contentious debate about which of the seven states should cut their water use and by how much.
Circle of Blue
APRIL 8, 2025
This story was originally published by the Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center. Homes and a fisher on the Kenai River. Photo: Christian Thorsberg Seldovia, Alaska a quintessential sleepy fishing town on the southern edge of the Kenai Peninsula starts to wake up around late May. By then, the first salmon are running. Water taxis come and go. Fishing charters fill.
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Circle of Blue
MARCH 17, 2025
Water is the tip of the spear for many of the worlds greatest challenges. Yet the water sector faces a disorganizational emergency where recent existential events are overtaking the ability to respond. Spain is on track to become the first desert country in Europe. Mexico City could reach Day Zero, when it runs out of water. Fires in California, floods in Pakistan, conflicts in Africa over water.
Circle of Blue
MARCH 1, 2025
Nearly a decade since a coalition of tribes, governments, nonprofits and businesses hatched an ambitious plan to bring back a native fish thats been absent from Michigan for nearly a century, the moment of truth is nigh. Starting in May, scientists will hatch hundreds of thousands of tiny Arctic grayling fry into the upstream tributaries of three northwest Michigan rivers the Boardman-Ottaway, Maple, and Manistee.
Circle of Blue
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
Biological collection specialists are divers who travel around the country relocating freshwater mussels and other vulnerable aquatic species before river restoration projects begin. In September of 2024, a team of 20 divers scoured 40,000 square meters of the Grand River in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan. In just two weeks, the team found, identified, marked, tagged, and relocated every native freshwater mussel within their search area.
Circle of Blue
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
Program highlights high costs of inaction. By J. Carl Ganter, Circle of Blue February 5, 2025 DAVOS After ebbs and flows on the agenda over nearly two decades, freshwater crises and solutions took a top spot in the program during theWorld Economic Forum Annual Meetingin Davos, Switzerland, January 20-24. We face a vicious cycle, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, president of Singapore , told us during the GAEA Awards held in the Forums expansive Congress Centre, while scientist Johan Rockstrm painted a
Circle of Blue
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
Program highlights high costs of inaction. By J. Carl Ganter, Circle of Blue February 5, 2025 DAVOS After ebbs and flows on the agenda over nearly two decades, freshwater crises and solutions took a top spot in the program during theWorld Economic Forum Annual Meetingin Davos, Switzerland, January 20-24. We face a vicious cycle, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, president ofSingapore, told us during theGAEAAwards held in the Forums expansive Congress Centre, while scientist Johan Rockstrm painted a pictu
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