This Week in Water

Lots of pre-Paris Conference on Climate Change activity—which is still happening despite the attacks of 11/13. So let's dive right in. Vive Generation Bataclan!

Many are dead and many more missing, and a quarter million Brazilians are without safe drinking water after two dams collapsed at an iron ore mine in Minas Gerais state.

Thousands of Wisconsinites are losing access to safe drinking water due to lax enforcement of industrial pollutant regulations.

To no one's great surprise (certainly not readers of TWIW here on WoW), damage to gulf coral from the massive 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has turned out to be more extensive than previously thought.

A massive Greenland glacier which has sufficient mass to raise sea levels by nearly two feet is on the verge of collapse.

Scientists have solved a 40-year-old problem about how to measure sea ice volume and thickness.

Smith Island is sinking into the Chesapeake Bay thanks to climate change.

Charleston, SC's flooding "king tides" are getting progressively higher, propelled even further due to this years super strong El Niño.

While some areas of Antarctica are losing record amounts of glaciated ice, other areas are gaining.

For the first time in recorded history, two major hurricanes in the Arabian Sea were observed.

Four Republican U.S. Senators formed a Senate Energy and Environment Working Group to focus on environmental issues caused by climate change. They deserve mention: Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Mark Kirk (R-IL), and Lindsey Graham (R-SC).

Another fossil fuel extraction company, Norway's state-owned oil and gas company Statoil, has announced it is pulling operations out of the Alaskan Arctic.

The Buckminster Fuller Institute has awarded a $100,000 prize to a commercial fisherman for a sustainable ocean farming plan designed to address overfishing, mitigate climate change, restore marine ecosystems, and provide jobs for fisherman.

Even more evidence of a watery past on Mars found.