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Since the 2015 megatransect, we have explored all major rivers of the Okavango River basin, covering a life-changing 4,000 miles of detailed research transects on our dugout canoes and our fat-tire mountain bikes.
You get a beautiful representation of what's going on in the climate system, where each and every one of those emergent patterns that you can see, the swirls in the Southern Ocean, the tropical cyclone in the Gulf of Mexico, and there's two more that are going to pop up in the Pacific at any point now, those rivers of atmospheric water, all of those are emergent properties that come from the interactions of all of those small-scale processes I mentioned.
The grizzly would soon be wiped out from 95 percent of its original territory, and whereas once there had been 30 million bison moving across the plains, and you would have these stories of trains having to stop for four or five hours so that these thick, living rivers of the animals could pour over the tracks, now, by 1902, there were maybe less than 100 left in the wild.
If we could use the analogy of the blood circulating in our bodies, like the water circulating in the landscape, we see that rivers are veins, they drain the landscape, they drain the tissue of nature.
We are floating here on this floating hotel, on one of the largest rivers on Earth, the Negro River.
It would lead to changing deserts, changing rivers, changing patterns of hurricanes, changing sea levels, hundreds of millions of people, perhaps billions of people who would have to move, and if we've learned anything from history, that means severe and extended conflict.
Not that I'm a bad teacher, but I've been studying and teaching about human waste and how waste is conveyed through these wastewater treatment plants, and how we engineer and design these treatment plants so that we can protect surface water like rivers.
With the help of the family, they cross oceans, they cross deserts, they cross rivers, they cross mountains.
But, repeated month after month, by millions of people, these sums of money add up to rivers of foreign currency.
We use rivers."
So rivers are the highways of the jungle, and this is something we learned, and most of the recruiting was being done in and around the river villages.
Even people took off their jewelry, their little crosses and religious things, and put them in these floating balls that we sent down the rivers so that they could be picked up at night.
And we sent thousands of these down the rivers, and then picked them up later if they weren't.
Instead, Hercules dug massive trenches, rerouting two nearby rivers to flow through the stables until they were spotless.
Around this time, flooded tunnels erode the streets above into urban rivers.
Their reality consists of objective entities, like rivers and trees and lions and elephants.
In our world, too, there are rivers and trees and lions and elephants.
And it's a huge network of underground rivers, channels, big rooms, extremely deep shafts.
In fact, with roughly 50% of the world's population living within 100 kilometers of the coastline and with most of the remainder living close enough to lakes, rivers, or swamps, all of which ultimately lead to the ocean, virtually every single person on the planet has the opportunity to influence the general health and nature of the world ocean.
There's actually almost no regulation in the UK around burial, and the little bit that there is, is about not polluting water courses, like not polluting rivers or groundwater.
Our water planet is not just rivers, lakes and oceans, but it's this vast network of groundwater that knits us all together.
It changed ours, too, when we learned about it, when we learned that almost all plastic bags in Bali end up in our drains and then in our rivers and then in our ocean.
You see, boiling rivers do exist in the world, but they're generally associated with volcanoes.
Because we do live in a world where shamans still sing to the spirits of the jungle, where rivers do boil and where legends do come to life.
And it creates these atmospheric rivers.
The Brazilian scientists call them "flying rivers."
And now, where there was once a mountain of certitude, there was, running right down to its foundation, a spring of doubt, a spring that promised rivers.
We export most of the renewable electricity we generate from our fast-flowing rivers.
Remember, this is the country where electricity comes from water in our rivers, heat from volcanoes, wind turbines, solar panels, biowaste.
It can be found in swathes of city pavements, bridges that span vast rivers, and the tallest skyscrapers on earth.
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