Water Scarcity

THE LIGHTBULB A couple stroll along Silver Beach in St. Joseph, Mich. (Don Campbell/The Herald-Palladium via AP) For years, the Trump administration wanted to slash its funding. Now its boasting about pouring millions of dollars into it.  The Environmental…

Africa is building an 8,000-km-long wall of trees. The UK government has announced funds to plant 10 million trees across England. In India, volunteers planted 66 million trees in Madhya Pradesh within 12 hours. Many countries hope to offset their carbon emis…

The spread of buffelgrass "rivals climate change and water scarcity as our region's most pressing environmental issue," according to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. Buffelgrass, an invasive species native to Africa, Asia and the Middle East, was introduced…

—Water Resource Issues: What You Need To Know! Water is the most important resource on the planet. It’s also the most plentiful. But it’s also not as useable as you may think. As the world grows in population, countries develop out of poverty, and weather pat…

At 11am, Elizabeth takes a panga from the store and heads out into the hills where she meets her friends from the neighbourhood. Nigerians They descend onto the forest in their village of Burak in Shongom, Gombe State of Nigeria to cut down trees and collec…

Water scarcity, a failing water system and alternative solutions to an increasingly arid South Africa were the points of focus at a Gibb Engineering and Architecture round table discussion in Gauteng on Thursday. We are living in a semi-arid country with var…

67% of land now occupied by commercial farmers Hunger and sickness rife, with some families eating wild leaves to survive 'Traditional cattle farmers have lost their best grazing land and now watch helplessly as their children and families go to bed on empt…

South Africa is considered a water-scarce country. This is hardly a surprise for those who live in Cape Town and have endured drought conditions that edged the city towards Day Zero (when the city would run out of water to supply), or for farmers whove strugg…

The Environmental Photographer of the Year is an award set up to help expose the impact that human actions have on the planet. In line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, the award aims to recognise work that shows the interconnected nature…

South Africa is considered a water-scarce country. This is hardly a surprise for those who live in Cape Town and have endured drought conditions that edged the city towards Day Zero (when the city would run out of water to supply), or for farmers whove strugg…