How much longer will PBS be able to continue this kind of reporting?
Just gave something to my local station, but not sure that’s enough. We’re in a moment here where we could lose our media eyes, ears and brains.
The video above is on groundwater, and the effect of climate on our use of it. It highlights a poorly understood, but critical impact – the subsidence of surface land as aquifers are drained below.
A few years ago, I spoke to Martha Shulski, at the University of Nebraska, about one of the most important US underground aquifers – the Ogallala. Dr. Shulski was Nebraska State Climatologist at the time.