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Europe’s Water Reserves Drying Up Due to Climate Breakdown
November 29th, 2025
Via The Guardian, a report on new scientific studies which find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications: Vast swathes of Europe’s water reserves are drying up, a new analysis using two decades of satellite data reveals, with freshwater storage shrinking across southern and central Europe, from Spain and Italy to […]
Read more »Turkmenistan’s Drought Dries Reservoirs
November 26th, 2025
Two reservoirs in western Turkmenistan have fully dried up, according to satellite analysis published by Meteozhurnal, a specialist meteorological outlet. Mammetköl and Delili, small reservoirs in Balkan province fed by the low-water Atrak river, shrank steadily over the past year and had no remaining water by early summer. Meteozhurnal based its findings on time-series imagery […]
Read more »Lake Chad Basin Caught in Brutal Boko Haram-ISWAP Struggle
November 25th, 2025
Via The Africa Report, an article on the fight between Boko Haram and ISWAP for control of the Lake Chad islands: It was cold and quiet around 4am on 7 November, when James (last name withheld) shut the door and led his heavily pregnant wife and their two children, under the age of six, onto […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: India’s Ganga Basin ‘Highly Water Stressed’
November 24th, 2025
Via Down to Earth, a report on Asia’s ‘triple threat’ as its 10 major rivers are at risk from escalating climate risks and deepening water stress, says analysis The Ganga river basin is highly water stressed and India must act as the basin houses 45 per cent of the country’s population, accounts for 44 per […]
Read more »The Global Groundwater Crisis and Implications for Food, Water, Pollution, and Social Unrest
November 23rd, 2025
Via Climate Water Project, a look at the big groundwater crisis which some believe will lead to significant global food, water, pollution, and social unrest: I was mesmerized listening to John Cherry talk about groundwater, so absorbed that I didn’t notice that two hours had gone by. With lucid clarity, he laid bare the massive […]
Read more »Climate Wars: How a Warming Planet is heating up Global Tensions
November 22nd, 2025
Via Nikkei Asia, commentary on how a warming planet is heating up global tensions: At the end of 2023, 75.9 million people were living in internal displacement, a record high, with nearly half in Africa alone. By 2050, the World Bank projects that 216 million more could be forced to move within their own countries, […]
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