New York has long boasted about the quality of its drinking water. However, plans to drill for natural gas near the watersheds that supply New York City may change that.
The tiny pebbles were collected by astronauts during NASA’s Apollo missions of the 1970s, but the techniques used to find the traces of water weren’t available until recently. A new analysis of moon pebbles collected decades ago has found that the small stones contained traces of water. Read the full report.
We humans love water. According to United Nations estimates, we currently take 54 percent of the planet’s available freshwater and our share will rise to 90 percent in 25 …
Compared to most of the world’s rivers, the Jordan is insignificant. More water flows down the Amazon in an hour than flows down the Jordan in a year. But the Jordan River flows in a part of the world where the health of a river is influenced by politics as well as by the environment. Read more…
It’s a busy week in art around town. The Collections of Barbara Bloom at the International Center of Photography; Water: H2O = Life at the Museum of Natural History; Re-inventing Color, 1950 to Today at MoMA; and much more.
