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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, […]
Read more »The Great Adaptation: Why Climate Security Is Redefining Global Power
November 21st, 2025
Via Illuminem, commentary on the Great Adaptation – why climate security is redefining global power: We are living through a quiet revolution, one not marked by battles or borders, but by resilience. The world is entering an age where power is measured not by dominance or wealth, but by endurance. The ability of a nation to absorb […]
Read more »Study: Something’s Gotta Give on the Rio Grande
November 21st, 2025
Via The Land Desk, a look at how climate change and overconsumption are drying up the Southwest’s “other” big river: The Colorado River and its woes tend to get all of the attention, but the Southwest’s “other” big river, the Rio Grande, is in even worse shape thanks to a combination of warming temperatures, drought, […]
Read more »Putin’s Pipe Dream: Russian Scientists Discuss Project to “Redirect” Siberian Rivers
November 21st, 2025
Russian scientists have reportedly asked the Kremlin to fund a feasibility study on diverting water from Russia’s Ob River down to Central Asia. The $100B plan would see a massive plastic pipeline carry up to 22 cubic km (5.3 cubic miles) ofw ater through Kazakhstan into Uzbekistan annually. This idea builds upon a similar Soviet-era […]
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