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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released a draft plan outlining how it will go about examining the risks of shale extraction. Though several American cities have banned hydraulic fracturing over worries for water contamination, drilling for oil and gas is enjoying a bonanza in several U.S. states. Growing opposition to an open pit gold mining […]
Crop shortages are just another ingredient in an explosive mix that might fire up social and political unrest à la Tunisia and Egypt in other parts of the world, the Guardian reports. As the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization announced that food prices hit a record high for a seventh consecutive month, world media are […]
Despite the abundance of water in the Great Lakes, some areas in the region could face severe water shortages as a result of growing demand and approaching climate change, a five-year study by the U.S. Geological Survey says. In some places, like the Chicago-Milwaukee metro area, groundwater levels have plummeted about 1,000 feet and could […]
An appeals court in Botswana ruled that the Bushmen in the arid Central Kalahari Game Reserve can now drill wells for water, in what is the latest chapter of a painful legal battle for water access against the Botswana government. Fred Pearce, author of “When the Rivers Run Dry,” finds yet another river on the […]
While ordinary Chinese flood train stations, bus terminals and airports, and pour out their money to buy presents, decorations and food for the Chinese New Year, media outlets are streaming news about the persistent drought that threatens China’s major wheat-producing regions. But the Year of the Rabbit can open on an optimistic note as well, […]
Collaboration to focus on water, energy, and climate in China and Great Lakes. Immersive program puts advanced students in the center of “one of the decade’s biggest news, policy, and technology issues.”
Without water as part of the equation, there can be no long-term solution to climate change.
China attempts to move forward with its clean energy ambitions.
Circle of Blue revisits seas of dying grass and blowing sand in northern China.
A weekend meeting of the Nile basin water ministers does not resolve treaty impasse.
