National Geographic Blog Wild: Freshwater Archives

October 19, 2009 4:51 PM

Hooked on Sawfish: Zeb Hogan

Posted By Ford Cochran - BlogWild Editor

National Geographic Emerging Explorer, aquatic ecologist, and megafish-finder Zeb Hogan has traveled to lakes and rivers the world over to document and protect the planet’s largest freshwater fish. Tonight, the National Geographic Channel premieres a new episode of Hooked that follows Zeb into the Australian outback in search of one of the most critically endangered—and peculiar-looking—fish on Earth, the giant freshwater sawfish.

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October 13, 2009 5:51 PM

Run With Cousteau for Clean Running Water

Posted By Ford Cochran - BlogWild Editor

If you have water on tap in your home, school, or office, and it’s safe to drink, count your blessings: hundreds of millions of people worldwide don’t. As human population and water demands increase, and as climate patterns shift, some aquifers and rivers are running dry. Many people (disproportionately women and children) walk miles a day just to retrieve clean—or not-so-clean—water to drink, to cook with, and to bathe with. Many communities lack any source of clean water or the means to regularly filter, boil, or chemically sterilize it. Contaminated drinking water spreads diseases that kill millions of children and adults each year.

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October 1, 2009 7:56 PM

National Geographic's Energy Man

Posted By Amy Bucci - BlogWild Contributor

National Geographic Emerging Explorer T.H. Culhane and his wife Sybille are passionate about energy and garbage. In fact, they are so committed to investigating new ways of approaching energy problems that they moved into a slum in Cairo, and are teaching the people there how to make solar water heaters from recycled materials and biogas from trash.

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September 15, 2009 2:20 PM

Anacostia River Cleanup in Washington D.C.

Posted By Alexandra Cousteau - Social Environmental Advocate

National Geographic Emerging Explorer Alexandra Cousteau visits the Earth Conservation Corps, a service organization that teaches at-risk teenagers and young adults from the poorest, most violent neighborhoods in Washington, D.C. to clean up the Anacostia River̶and their lives.

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September 2, 2009 4:42 PM

Alexandra Cousteau's Blue Planet

Posted By Ford Cochran - BlogWild Editor

I got together with environmentalist, advocate, and National Geographic Emerging Explorer Alexandra Cousteau at headquarters yesterday afternoon to discuss something she thinks about lots and speaks of with passion: Water. Over the last half-year, Alexandra's Expedition: Blue Planet has taken her to India, Botswana, the Middle East, the Mississippi River, and Cambodia chronicling "the interconnectivity of water... what it means to live in a world where water is our most precious resource."

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