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Drought: Draining Water Supplies and Driving Up Food Costs Where You’d Least Expect
July 10th, 2025
Via Grist, a look at how – from Mexico City to the Mekong Delta – increasingly severe droughts caused by climate change are laying waste to ecosystems and economies everywhere: Taking shovels and buckets to a dried-up sandy belt of the Vhombozi River in Zimbabwe last August, groups of Mudzi district villagers gathered to dig […]
Read more »The Dam That Sparked a South American Spying Scandal
July 10th, 2025
Via Foreign Policy, a report on how ties between Brazil and Paraguay are fraying as they renegotiate access to one of the world’s most powerful energy sources: Stretching for 5 miles across the Paraná River between Paraguay and Brazil, Itaipu is one of the world’s most powerful hydroelectric dams. In 2016 alone, the binational facility, […]
Read more »Water Crises Threaten the World’s Ability to Eat, Studies Show
October 20th, 2024
Via the New York Times, an article on how food production is concentrated in too few countries, many of which face water shortages: High food prices, meet the global water crisis. The world’s food supply is under threat because so much of what we eat is concentrated in so few countries, and many of those […]
Read more »Drought Turns Amazonian Capital Into Climate Dystopia
October 11th, 2024
Via The Guardian, an article on the serious impact of drought on Manaus: A withering drought has turned the Amazonian capital of Manaus into a climate dystopia with the second worst air quality in the world and rivers at the lowest levels in 121 years. The city of 1 million people, which is surrounded by […]
Read more »A Changing Climate Is Scorching the World’s Biggest River
October 6th, 2024
Courtesy of The New York Times, a look at how – as a punishing drought dries up stretches of the Amazon River – Brazil is resorting to dredging to try to keep food, medicine and people flowing along the watery superhighway: The world’s largest river is parched. The Amazon River, battered by back-to-back droughts fueled […]
Read more »Stark Before-and-After Photos Reveal Dramatic Shrinking of Major Amazon Rivers
September 30th, 2024
Via CNN, stark before-and-after pictures reveal dramatic shrinking of major Amazon rivers Huge tributaries that feed the mighty Amazon River — the largest on the planet — have plunged to record-low levels, upending lives, stranding boats, and threatening endangered dolphins as drought grips Brazil. The country is currently enduring its worst drought since records began in 1950, […]
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