Water Scarcity

Today, more than 700 million people around the world drink water from unsafe or untreated sources, such as wells, springs and surface water. About half of these people live in sub-Saharan Africa. In fact, in more than 30 African countries, fewer than 20% of …

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Of all the water to be found on Earths surface, less than 1% is fresh water that is suitable for human use whether in rivers, lakes, the atmosphere or groundwater. Related: The 7 Best Starter Credit Cards This 1% is under threat from rapidly growing populat…

An increasing number of the worlds people are facing extremely high water stress, but a great deal can still be done to reverse the damage, Jodi Dean, a professor of political science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and Fred Magdoff, professor emeritus …

News of America's most recent mass shootings obscured this week's headlines on global climate change. July was the hottest month ever recorded, European climate researchers said on Monday. This was especially true on their continent, which saw searing heat b…

Yesterday morning in Geneva, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its special report on climate change and land. The land provides the food, feed, fibre, fuel and freshwater without which human society and its economy could not exis…

In the Amazon, or in the parts of the Amazon that people have mowed down and converted into grazing pasture, the average abattoir-bound cow has nearly three acres to himself. Nice for the cow, perhaps, but senseless and dangerous in every other way. Every yea…

A Special Report of Climate Change and Land by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just been released. It shows that land is under increasing pressure from humans and climate change, and calls for better land management around the world, …

Kavya NarayananAug 08, 2019 18:01:23 IST Between 26 August 2019, a panel of scientific experts met in Geneva to hammer out a high-stakes special environmental report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food secu…

A major hydraulic crisis is imminent. According to a report from the World Resources Institute (IWR) published on Tuesday, one-quarter of the world's population is facing "extremely high water stress". The World Resources Institute's Aqueduct Water Risk Atla…