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Climate Change and Water Scarcity: Giving Rise To Human Migration
November 25th, 2021
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, an interview focused on how climate change and shifting water supplies are causing the greatest migration in human history: J. Carl Ganter: This is Speaking of Water from Circle of Blue. I’m J. Carl Ganter. Parag Khanna: There are many drivers and they’re all in overdrive right now. JCG: Human civilization […]
Read more »Tapped Out: Where Is California’s Water Going?
November 24th, 2021
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a report on the battle over water between small and large farmers in central California? Farmers in the heart of California’s agricultural belt – Kings County – sense something is awry with their water supplies. In this intensively farmed, perennially dry county, water is leaving at a concerning rate. “We’ve […]
Read more »Somalia Faces ‘Rapidly Worsening’ Drought: UN
November 22nd, 2021
Via Terra Daily, a report on Somalia’s drought: Somalia’s “rapidly worsening” drought has left more than two million people facing severe food and water shortages, the United Nations said, warning of a fourth consecutive season of poor rainfall in the conflict-wracked country. “About 2.3 million people in 57 of 74 districts… are ravaged by serious […]
Read more »Urbanization and Climate Change in the Asia-Pacific
November 17th, 2021
Via The Diplomat, an interesting look at how climate change and urbanization interact in the Asia-Pacific, leading to new traditional and non-traditional security risks: Urbanization and Water Rapid urbanization leads to increased competition over the same water resources over a small, densely populated area, leading to unequal access to safe water resources, and environmental degradation and […]
Read more »Global Heating: The Threat to Asia
November 9th, 2021
Via Nikkei Asia, an article on the threat of climate change on Asia: The “Asian century” has barely begun — but it is already in peril from global heating. Rising sea levels and extreme weather pose grave threats to the islands, coastal cities and tropical zones of a vast region where more than half of […]
Read more »Drought-Stricken Madagascar a ‘Wake-Up Call’ to Rest of World Facing Climate Change: U.N.
November 2nd, 2021
Via Newsweek, a report on drought-stricken Madagascar and what it means for the rest of the world: The United Nations‘ food agency has referenced Madagascar as an example of what’s to come as the climate crisis continues. World Food Program (WFP) Executive Director David Beasley told the Associated Press in an interview that he recently visited […]
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