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World’s Looming Water Crisis
October 10th, 2021
Via the World Meterological Organization, an article on the world’s looming water crisis: Water-related hazards like floods and droughts are increasing because of climate change. The number of people suffering water stress is expected to soar, exacerbated by population increase and dwindling availability. But management, monitoring, forecasting and early warnings are fragmented and inadequate, whilst global […]
Read more »Central Asia’s Collapsing Water Tower
October 10th, 2021
Via Cryopolitics, an article on Central Asia’s glaciers: Today’s ‘Fieldwork Friday’ photos come from Kyrgyzstan, where I ventured in 2018 during a trip along the ancient Silk Roads crisscrossing Central Asia. Over the course of a three-day trek, with my Kyrgyz guide (who spent his winters working in a reindeer meat processing plant in Yakutia, […]
Read more »Years-Long Drought Pushes Brazil to the Brink
October 7th, 2021
Via Circle of Blue, an article on the impact of Brazil’s worst drought in nearly a century is choking commerce, threatening ecosystems, and diminishing hydroelectric power generation: Parched conditions have gripped Brazil for nearly a decade. Now, as a historic drought stretches into its third year, the country’s economy, energy systems, and environment are tearing at […]
Read more »Migration: Soon To Be The Biggest Climate Challenge Of All
October 4th, 2021
Via National Geographic, a look at how – as heat, drought and rising sea levels make regions uninhabitable – millions of people will need to find new homes: As diplomats and negotiators from around the world prepare to gather in Glasgow, Scotland, in November for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, governments and industries are getting […]
Read more »How Water Shortages Are Brewing Wars
October 1st, 2021
Courtesy of BBC, an article on how unprecedented levels of dam building and water extraction by nations on great rivers are leaving countries further downstream increasingly thirsty, increasing the risk of conflicts: Speaking to me via Zoom from his flat in Amsterdam, Ali al-Sadr pauses to take a sip from a clear glass of water. […]
Read more »Four West African Countries Pledge Cooperation On Giant Aquifer
October 1st, 2021
Via Terra Daily, an article on four West African countries making a pledge on giant shared aquifer: Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania and Senegal on Wednesday pledged to exploit their joint water resources sustainably. Ministers in charge of water, meeting in Geneva, made the vow over the Senegal-Mauritanian Aquifer Basin (SMAB), a vast groundwater resource on which […]
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