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Mariner 9: Our 1st Steps to Mars

The Mariner 9 exploration of Mars was a good demonstration of how science and technology literally open new worlds for discovery.
… Howell … Outer Space/Universe … Science & Technology … Water … Mariner 9: Our 1st Steps to Mars …
Haze obscuring image of rooftops in China

The Greening of China?

… to do with air quality. The second has to do really with water quantity and quality. And I think perhaps the third … then affecting both urban and rural areas is the issue of water depletion and water pollution or degradation. So it's estimated like 70% …
View of the Solovetskii Monastery.

A Postcard from Solovki

… I stand at the bow of the ferry as the water of the White Sea comes in wave after wave through the … swells. A mother and son play in the running water beside me while a young couple stands draped over each … summer months to take advantage of the rich fishing in the waters nearby. When winter came they would return to their …
a man kneeling down near tributes to fallen heroes

Heroes Never Die: The Legacies of Euromaidan

Emily Channell-Justice explores the goals and lived experiences of Ukraine’s watershed Euromaidan protests of 2013-14.
… explores the goals and lived experiences of Ukraine’s watershed Euromaidan protests of 2013-14. The dreams, … explores the goals and lived experiences of Ukraine’s watershed Euromaidan protests of 2013-14. … Emily …
Top view of engineer at desk with laptop, hardhat, and blueprints

Origins interviews the American Society of Civil Engineers

… So that includes aviation, bridges, dams, drinking water, energy, hazardous waste, inland waterways, levees, ports, public parks and recreation, rail, roads, schools, solid waste transit and wastewater. And overall then we have a cumulative grade point …
The aurora borealis over the Arctic

Climate Change, Russia, and the Race for the Arctic

… baseline that they use so that in summertime, much more water was opened up than we've seen before. And I think that … 1982 basically gives rights to various countries to the waters and whatever resources or fish or whatever else are in the waters off of their shores. And there are five countries in …

Treaties and Sovereign Performances, from Westphalia to Standing Rock

… A pipeline break would directly threaten the principal water source of not only Standing Rock, but more than 15 … drawing international attention and support. Thousands of “water protectors,” representing 300 Native American nations … protesters and security and police officers armed with water cannons, tear gas, and armored vehicles. To the …
The other side of The Shore, depicting the Maritime House, third from the left. The former headquarters of the National Seamen’s Union are now flats.

A Postcard from Leith, Scotland

… and Boots. The Shore, the main street of Leith, next to the Water of Leith. The bus then turns off the Walk and onto … of Leith in the twentieth century. Whaling harpoon on the Water of Leith: another reminder of Leith’s industrial past. … Edinburgh’s vision for the future. While you walk along the Water of Leith, pull up “Sunshine on Leith” by The …

Russia and the Race for the Arctic

… We've established—a long time ago—that these are Canadian waters and this is Canadian property. You can't go around … interests in the Arctic." The New Race for the Arctic Waters While McKay and others might see Chilingarov's flag … centuries ago. The current race is for dominion over the waters and ice of the Arctic, especially the resources that …
President Nixon photographed through a window explaining release of edited transcripts, April 29, 1974

Will There Be a Last Nixon Cover-Up?

… passed in 1974 while the special prosecutor investigated Watergate governs public access to Nixon’s records. A later … law directs the Archives to reveal “the full truth” about Watergate abuses. Nixon sought to limit tape disclosures to … in 1973. But archivists identified new information about Watergate during the 1980s. Taylor, who served as Nixon’s …
The 1999 impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton, Chief Justice William Rehnquist presiding

How Presidential Power Became Untouchable

… compromises our constitutional system. Lessons drawn from Watergate, Iran-Contra, and the relatively easy Bush-Cheney … doing so. The committee concentrated its attention on the Watergate break-in itself and actions to cover it up. It … warrantless wiretaps, uncondemned. For all the notice given Watergate, little has been said about the blueprint for it …
cars on a highway

Sweet Fuel: The Remarkable Story of Brazilian Ethanol

… associated environmental and social costs in the form of water pollution from liquid waste generated during ethanol … environmental and social costs. First in the form of water pollution from liquid waste generated during ethanol … made of mostly organic material, but actually no - mostly water, 90% water, and about seven or 8% organic materials, …
a Galapagos sea turtle swimming in the ocean

What’s “Natural” on the Galapagos Islands?

The youngest, westernmost islands are still volcanically active and are thought to be no more than 700,000 thousand years old.
… at the confluence of three oceanic currents—the cold water Humboldt and Cromwell Currents and the warm water Panama Current—created the unique ecological … even than humans. Their efficient digestion and low water requirements have allowed them to thrive in this dry, …
Malawi

A Postcard from Livingstonia, Malawi

… an interesting hydrological feature known as “holy water:” water comes up from a small hole in the ground and runs for … two or three meters, before disappearing in the bushes. The water's source is unknown, but it is believed that the …
NASA marks Earth Day’s 50th anniversary.

“Give Earth a Chance”: Earth Day and the Politics of Modern Environmentalism

… Who is responsible? How do we ensure clean air, clean water , and a healthy environment for our children and their … Unsafe at Any Speed (1965), Donald Carr’s Death of Sweet Waters (1966), Barry Commoner’s Science and Survival (1967), … of pollution problems that had degraded the Lake Erie watershed. Detroit and Buffalo pumped raw sewage into the …
Person on horseback faces line of police and military vehicles

Native Sovereignty and the Dakota Access Pipeline

… Dakota Access Pipeline, in an area that will threaten their water supply should the pipeline leak. After months of … from the Standing Rock reservation, which threatens the water supply for that reservation and for about 15 million … becomes what happens if there's a leak? What happens to the water? What happens to the people? My goodness, we're right …

Pirates of Puntland, Somalia

… patterns and currents of the Indian Ocean have transported watercraft from Africa to Arabia, Arabia into the Persian … notions of borders, state sovereignty, and territorial waters. In accordance with the doctrine of national … states claim virtually all of the earth's land and coastal water. Moreover, the international community assumes that …

'The Energy of a Bright Tomorrow': The Rise of Nuclear Power in Japan

… and maintenance. Yet, annual droughts lowered the water levels of many rivers, making electric output variable … and regularly causing blackouts during the summer when the water was at its nadir and demand at its zenith. Developing … plant, the Japanese instead decided to go with boiling water and pressurized water reactors designed by General …
Earth covered in trees and water

"Pale Blue Dot": History of Our Environment

… of history and a specialist in the environmental history of water. And I'll be your host and moderator today.   Dr. … in the history of humankind, to protect our air, our water, our soils, to keep hazardous and toxic waste from … say, you know what, we care about this too, right. We have water pollution issues, too. We have these things, too. So. …
The Nuremburg Map of 1524 is the earliest known European visualization of Tenochtitlan

The Fall of Tenochtitlan

… 1521. “Conquer New Worlds” street ad for the Magic Island waterpark in Seville, Spain, summer 2018. Photograph …

Outdoing Panama: Turkey’s ‘Crazy’ Plan to Build an Istanbul Canal

… civilizations" suspended high over the Bosporus, the rough waterway that bisects the city and marks the geographic … vied over who should—and should not—be given access to the waterways as statesmen sought to maintain the balance of … to be seen, however, if this replacement of a natural waterway with a human engineered one will bring a definitive …
President Gerald Ford in 1975.

The Forgotten Virtues of Gerald Ford

… Ford did the opposite when he became president after the Watergate scandal. Unless the next president follows his … detractors snarled with contempt at one another during the Watergate investigations that finally toppled his … plummeted to just 18 percent of the electorate after Watergate. Ford needed to stop the party’s hemorrhaging and …

Killing the Arctic

… Atlantic right whales began disappearing from the northern waters east of Greenland in the first half of the 1600s, … flesh, oil, and, most of all, the seals’ lustrous and water-resistant fur. The Atlantic population of gray whales … Russia collecting iasak (fur tribute). Nineteenth-century watercolor by an unknown painter. Leaving aside their …
Port of Buenos Aires

Cholera and Argentina: Insights for COVID-19

… its unwanted waste, it sent millions of bacteria into the water supply, creating a chain of infected and infectors. By … in much of the world. Public investment in municipal water systems and the creation of sanitation ordinances … closed down cholera’s natural vector of contaminated water. Although much of the world has forgotten about …