WATERSHED Investigations
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Award-winning independent not-for-profit investigative journalism in the public interest. https://watershedinvestigations.com/ Watershed is: @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social @leanahosea.bsky.social Posts by Chloe
With farmers across the country reporting this year's low rainfall is hitting crop yields, here's an interview we did a few years ago with Riverford Farm's Guy Singh-Watson. We need to free up farms to prepare for many more dry summers to come: share.google/zJBDVkHYOR8q...
Riverford did eventually navigate admin barriers & get on-farm water storage - but, with climate change driving hotter, drier summers, warmer, wetter winters, water security for agriculture needs to be prioritised if we're to have food security: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘It’s too fast, too big’: speed of climate crisis is devastating crops, say farmers
Drought and extreme heat are killing plants, driving up prices while also making some farms economically unviable
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Water pumped for farming has almost doubled in recent years - farmers need the tools to protect their farms from drought if they're to keep feeding people: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How England’s outdated water tracking system leaves regulators in the dark
Experts warn accurately monitoring consumption by bulk users such as farmers, datacentres and businesses can be all but impossible
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Across the country, argues Julia King, we need to capture increasingly heavy winter rain & store it to get through increasingly water-stressed summers if we're to maintain a secure supply of food: share.google/QfY4m31PtRK0...
The Colorado River's 15-Mile Reach is back down to record low flows -- 57 cfs this afternoon, an all-time low for this day in the period of record for this USGS gage.
If you'd like to know more about this beleaguered stretch of the Colorado River, and some of the fish that call it home, I wrote about it for National Geographic earlier this summer: www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...
A river crisis is unfolding in the American West
The Colorado has been struggling for decades. This summer could bring it to the brink, threatening endangered wildlife and communities.
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The same people who have been telling us "we can't stop climate change, instead we must adapt" have been hammering our capacity to adapt, through their promotion of austerity. What they're really saying is "keep burning fossil fuels for the sake of our donors". www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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#wildlifeengineers vs #feeblesapiens
Bee Regenerative@beeregenerative.bsky.social · yesterdayPlanet Wild M41 plants 9,000 willows on a 20-ha abandoned fish farm in Poland’s Oder Delta to restart a beaver colony. Those willows are prime early-spring Bombus queen pollen—beaver restoration is pollinator restoration. https://youtu.be/4-qYZiBSK7g -A Bee
🚨The EPA has backed off its re-assessment of cancer-causing nitrates despite decades of research suggesting the contaminant is more harmful than previously thought and that nitrate pollution is at crisis levels in US drinking water. www.thenewlede.org/2026/08/epa-...
EPA stalls long-planned nitrate cancer review as pollution crisis grows
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has backed off its re-assessment of cancer-causing nitrates despite decades of research suggesting the contaminant is more harmful than previously thought ...
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A Nueces River Authority project could expand Corpus Christi's water supply, but Governor Greg Abbott has done little about the agency's financial problems despite choosing its board. bit.ly/3SevwhQ
Greg Abbott slow to act on river authority he has power over - The Texas Tribune
A Nueces River Authority project could expand Corpus Christi's water supply, but the Texas governor has done little about the agency's financial problems despite choosing its board.
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Missed the forum⁉️ Get the lowdown ⬇️ “Agroecology is about so much more than farming techniques. It is about rights, culture, education, local economies, biodiversity, and empowering communities to shape their own food and agricultural systems” —Gordana Đurić, Co-Chair Bilim Alliance #SwiftProject
Building a shared future: The Bilim Alliance Agroecology Forum (Astana 2026)
From June 23 to 27, 2026, the Bilim Alliance Agroecology Forum for Eastern Europe and Central-Western Asia took place in Astana, Kazakhstan. This year’s gathering built on a growing regional dialogue,...
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Nuclear power VS a 40°C summer is not going great 🌡️ When rivers get too warm or too low, nuclear reactors have to slow down or shut down ⚠️ Romania literally used explosives to redirect the Danube and help cool its reactor ⚠️ Hungary is on the verge of shutting down its only nuclear reactor 🧵
Romanian navy blows up rock in Danube to redirect water to nuclear plant
YouTube video by Guardian News
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Them belly full but we hungry. A hungry mob is a angry mob. A rain (no) fall (and) the dirt it tough; A pot a-cook but the food no 'nough. h/t Bob Marley
WATERSHED Investigations@watershed-i.bsky.social · yesterdayRiverford did eventually navigate admin barriers & get on-farm water storage - but, with climate change driving hotter, drier summers, warmer, wetter winters, water security for agriculture needs to be prioritised if we're to have food security: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser urged the U.S. Supreme Court to let state courts resolve a lawsuit between local governments and energy companies they sued for damages over the companies’ contributions to climate change. By @lindseytoomer.bsky.social
Attorneys general tell justices to let state court decide Boulder's climate change lawsuit | Colorado Newsline
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser urged the U.S. Supreme Court to let state courts resolve a lawsuit between Boulder and energy companies.
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I would never go on holiday to France and come back with a pig. But I’ll admit I was tempted | Zoe Williams
I would never go on holiday to France and come back with a pig. But I’ll admit I was tempted | Zoe Williams
The animal was no bigger than a pug and, when you scratched it, lay on its side and snorted with joy, writes Zoe Williams. Who could ask for more?
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#nuclearclimatecasualty www.theguardian.com/world/live/2... Hungary comes ‘within millimetres’ of shutting down nuclear power plant amid drought crisis – Europe live
Hungary comes ‘within millimetres’ of shutting down nuclear power plant amid drought crisis – Europe live
PM Péter Magyar says country nearly forced into decision as extreme heat and low water levels in Danube pose challenges in region
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...doubling its thermal coal exports since 2016. 🫨 To add insult to injury, almost 75% of the thermal coal exported from the Port of Vancouver comes from the U.S. Why? Because West Coast U.S. ports won’t take them. 🫠
Instead, British Columbia’s Lower Mainland residents bear the brunt of environmental and health risks. 😵💫 It's time Canada powers past coal. Join us on this new campaign on an old problem.
Gatwick airport to open second runway after legal challenge fails
Gatwick airport to open second runway after legal challenge fails
£2.2bn project will allow about 100,000 more flights a year to use Britain’s second busiest airport * Business live – latest updates Gatwick airport is to start development of its second runway after campaigners lost a legal challenge to the plans. The court of appeal on Tuesday dismissed a bid by local campaign groups to challenge an earlier high court ruling that the scheme could proceed. Continue reading...
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My editor asked me to write about what happened to summer:
We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit
Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys
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Hungary's Paks nuclear plant is close to complete shutdown due to low water levels on the Danube The river just hit the lowest level in more than a century, amid an ongoing European drought and heatwave
In the face of ramping climate impact - Shell does moral, intellectual, and fiscal hypocrisy. www.thetimes.com/business/com...
Shell sells European wind and solar in green energy retreat
Oil and gas group strikes deal to sell onshore business to France’s TotalEnergies, covering operations across the continent
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Heatwaves expose nuclear power’s water risk As river levels drop in heatwaves, many nuclear plants can't cool or discharge water so are facing reduced output or shutdown across Europe www.energylivenews.com/2026/08/03/h...
Heatwaves expose nuclear power’s water risk - Energy Live News
As river levels drop in heatwaves, many nuclear plants can't cool or discharge water so are facing reduced output or shutdown across Europe
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Mudslides and floods are among the most destructive natural disasters, causing severe damage to lives and property in Sri Lanka every year. ➡️ https://l.euronews.com/Sce2
En Gironde, le projet contesté de ferme-usine à saumons Pure Salmon autorisé par la préfecture
En Gironde, le projet contesté de ferme-usine à saumons Pure Salmon autorisé par la préfecture
L’autorisation est assortie de prescriptions « particulièrement exigeantes » pour encadrer les travaux et l’exploitation de l’usine, a justifié la préfecture, alors que le projet, d’une ampleur inédite en France, suscite une forte opposition.
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"We’ve just experienced the driest July on record and BP has driven record-breaking droughts, unprecedented wildfires and extraordinary excess heatwave deaths while amassing $5.7 billion (£4.24 billion) in profits". www.greenpeace.org.uk/press-centre/
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What another Texas flood revealed about the state's warning system ->Grist | More info at BigEarthData.ai | #TexasFlood #ClimateChange
What another Texas flood revealed about the state's warning system
When torrential rain doused the Texas Hill Country last month, Paul Welch stayed up past his bedtime checking radar and rain gauges on RiverHub, the Upper Guadalupe River Authority’s new tracking website. At midnight, comforted by what he saw, he went to bed. Four hours later, his phone rang. It was a neighbor, the same fellow who had awakened him the previous July, just before floodwaters swamped Welch’s riverfront cabin near Comfort. “Get up. Get out. Quick.” he said, speaking calmly into the phone. The water at Center Point, 4 miles upstream, had risen 25 feet as Welch slept. A wall of water was heading his way. Welch and his partner, Elizabeth Hastings, could hardly believe it was happening again. This time, they knew what to do: Hastings tossed the guns, jewelry, paperwork, and medication into the Sprinter van and drove through the downpour to a gas station already crowded with vehicles. Welch moved his tractor, golf cart, and other essentials to higher ground, then joined his neighbors on the same high spot near the highway where they’d gathered the last time this happened. For the second time in 12 months, they watched water tear through the valley, roiling and...
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Australian sodium battery start-up claims major milestones as storage industry starts to look beyond lithium reneweconomy.com.au/australian-s...
Australian sodium battery start-up claims major milestones as storage industry starts to look beyond lithium
Australian sodium battery start-up claims world-first milestones as storage industry looks beyond lithium, but the technology is excluded from home battery rebate scheme.
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Only 5.5% of German homes have a smart meter. France, Italy, Spain: >90%. Hard to reward demand shifting when nobody measures it. Germany pays €435m/yr to curtail renewables instead. euronews.com/2026/08/01/not-in-my-basement-why-has-germany-been-so-slow-to-adopt-smart-meters-and-whats-it-costing
Why is Germany so far behind on smart meters?
Only around five per cent of German households have a smart meter – compared to almost universal rollout in many other EU nations.
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