Water Scarcity

Introduction Predicting how climate change will affect ungulate communities is now urgent (Speakman & Król 2010; Fuller et al. 2014; Shrestha et al. 2014; Fuller et al. 2016; Pigeon et al. 2016) because increasing land temperatures, changing rainfall reg…

United Nations — The United Nations launched its 2019 report on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), showing inadequate progress in the fourth year into the sustainable development agenda and highlighting the need for imminent global action. Released on the…

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The following release was issued today by Vedanta Limited's subsidiary Hindustan Zinc Limited Highlights for the quarter Refined metal production at 219kt, up 3% y-o-y Silver production at 159 MT, up 15% y-o-y Mined metal producti…

Pioneer Foods has a robust, locally relevant product portfolio that complements PepsiCo's current lineup, with strong positions in cereals, juices, and other African nutritional food staples, including well-known, scaled brands like Weet-Bix, Liqui-Fruit, Cer…

press releaseNew York/Rome — Family farmers need enabling public policies and legal frameworks that will "allow them to adapt and flourish in today's changing environment" and maximize their contribution to sustainable development, FAO Director-General José G…

… Say Atlantic City wont save Lekki, Victorial Island from flooding By Gabriel Olawale Experts and scholars championing environmental sustainability in Nigeria have called on  govern-ments and Nigerians to be more proactive and conscious of the danger assoc…

By Gabriel Olawale Experts and scholars championing environmental sustainability in Nigeria have called on governments and Nigerians to be more proactive and conscious of the danger associated with climate change, even as they noted that the recurrent floodi…

NAIROBI, July 15 (Xinhua) -- Jessica Gimo is yet to overcome the painful memories of her encounter with devastations wrought by Cyclone Idai that battered her native country of Mozambique in March this year. The 25-year-old law major and volunteer with a gra…

About 20% of the world's population has no access to safe drinking water, and this number will increase as the population continues to grow and global freshwater sources continue to decline. The worst-affected areas are the arid and semiarid regions of Asia, …