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The Rockies' Week in Review: Help keep Headwaters coming to you every week. Please donate. In our News to Track section, a new study released this week warned that Lake Mead, the reservoir that provides much of the water supply for Phoenix and Las Vegas, could become unusable within the next thirteen years, if river flows and consumption rates continue at recent levels. In New Mexico, researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory will unveil this week a process they've discovered to capture the carbon atoms in carbon dioxide emissions--a leading greenhouse gas--and turn those atoms into fuel, but the process relies on the use of nuclear power; and finally Wyoming, General Electric and the University of Wyoming signed an agreement to create a coal-gasification research center in that state to find a much cleaner way to turn Wyoming's coal into power. Send this version along to your friends and colleagues, or send them to Headwaters' Web site to catch up on all of the Rocky Mountain West's news of the week. Click on any headline to read the story. Click on the links above right to read any day of the past week's Headwaters. Click on "subscribe" to get Headwaters in your email. See all our features at http://www.headwatersnews.org and bookmark the site. |
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A new study by scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography said that if demand for water remains the same and if climate changes follow the moderate forecasts that predict lower average river flows, Lake Mead which is a primary source of water for Phoenix and Las Vegas, has a 50 percent chance of becoming unusable within the next 13 years. Los Alamos researchers say they can turn C02 emissions into fuel NewWest.net View Western cities clean up former industrial sites to grow USFWS: Litigation could delay wolf delisting for years
Survey: Most open space in Colorado not open to the public
Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation finds buyer for Montana ranch Analysis: New Mexico's streams, lakes in danger
Climate change focus of Indian activists cross-country walks Environment Colorado county says water build-up in abandoned mine a safety risk
Report details Alberta's oilsands industry's impact on the environment Researchers not sure why there are no jack rabbits in Yellowstone Arizona's budget deficit deepens Idaho bill would create elk farm panel Idaho lawmakers take aim again at shooter-bull operations Bill would make developers foot the bill for affordable housing in Idaho
N.M. House passes bill to put state on path to flat-rate income tax As N.M. legislative session winds up, water bills dry-docked Utah House passes bill to repeal driver card law Utah Senate OKS bill to allow OHVs on some rural roads U.S. economy plays differently in Montana, Michigan Coeur d'Alene-based Hecla Mining Company has had a busy week, spending $750 million to buy the Greens Creek Mine in Alaska, one of the largest silver mines in the world, and on Wednesday, officials announced a deal to buy nearly all the assets of Wallace-based Independence Lead Mines Co., which will give Hecla more mining claims in Idaho's Silver Valley. Idaho Statesman; 02/14/2008 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Wyoming officials work on ways to make coal fit California standards Federal court tosses Bush administration's mercury-emissions rules Jewelers join fight against Alaska gold mine |
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