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The Storm Chasers Trying To Save The World From Drought
September 28th, 2024
Courtesy of The Economist, a look at – while everyone agrees the planet needs more water – cloud-seeding remains controversial: Bill Kornell has spent most of his half-century-long career flying into bad weather. A former bull-riding champion, the sinewy 80-year-old has been a pilot since the 1960s, when he realised that travelling to far-flung rodeo towns […]
Read more »Visualizing the Global Population by Water Security Levels
September 23rd, 2024
Via Visual Capitalist, a report on global water scarcity: Most of the world’s population today lives in countries facing critical water security issues. Dealing with issues such as declining freshwater availability, demand from growing populations, insufficient infrastructure, or flawed water governance can impact how easily a country’s population can access water. A combination of multiple factors […]
Read more »They’ve Got a Plan to Fight Global Warming. It Could Alter the Oceans.
September 23rd, 2024
Via the New York Times, an article on a forthcoming complexity to water politics – carbon removal: In a quiet patch of forest in Nova Scotia, a company is building a machine designed to help slow global warming by transforming Earth’s rivers and oceans into giant sponges that absorb carbon dioxide from the air. When […]
Read more »The Globe’s Water Security Crisis
September 9th, 2024
Via Project Syndicate, a report on the increasingly severe water shortages which represent a human-made crisis that can be resolved through human interventions. The situation demands new thinking about the economics of this critical resource and how to manage it through mission-oriented strategies that span all levels of governance: When it comes to water, the […]
Read more »Cloud Seeding and the Water Wars of Tomorrow
September 9th, 2024
Via Geopolitical Monitor, a look at the impact of cloud seeding on future water crises: Fueled by the climate crisis and El Niño, 2024 has been a year of global extreme temperatures. Australia suffered a string of heat waves through its summer months and, in February, parts of West Africa reported 50C temperatures that made “time […]
Read more »Water and Climate: Inseparable
September 2nd, 2024
Via The Economist, a reminder of why water and climate are inseparable: Rising temperatures do more than make the world hotter. Widespread weather impacts are one of the reasons why scientists prefer the term “climate change” to “global warming”. But it can be hard to grasp just how connected the climate and the water cycle […]
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