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This Week in Water for May 4, 2014

 In this podcast Yale World Fellow Alexander Verbeek, strategic policy advisory on global issues at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, discusses how to build an robust social network — and how to use it effectively to communicate key issues and build a global community. 

Building a Social Network for Climate Action: a Conversation with Alexander Verbeek

Trees Know an Eclipse Is Coming Before it Starts. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report

Headlines:

The National Climate Assessment is required by law every four years. Trump just dismissed 400 of its scientists.

Trump wants to expedite seabed mining of cobalt and nickel even though EV manufacturers are shifting away from using the minerals.

Sanitary pads are 90 percent plastic. Now, researchers have developed ones made from cornstarch.

A new study found that older trees school younger ones about what to expect in a solar eclipse.

This Week in Water for May 4, 2025

H2O Radio is journalism about water. We follow water wherever it leads us and report on what we find. We interview experts— from engineers and scientists to legislators and politicians in order to get the facts. But we also talk to ordinary folks to ask how water issues affect their lives. Why? Because we're all in this together. This is a conversation about water and our collective water future.

This Week in Water for May 4, 2025

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