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“I’m doing my best to alert people to this perilous situation,” says Julian Cribb, author of The Coming Famine. A longtime science journalist in Australia, Cribb works around the globe, reporting on the increasing shortage of food, water, land, and energy. He says that the situation is the most dire that humanity has ever faced. […]
Circle of Blue founder J. Carl Ganter to accept award for new model that informs global decision-making about global water crisis “Innovation occurs when problems and potential solutions are reframed, re-imagined, or recombined.” — Dr. Judith Rodin, President, Rockefeller Foundation “A global shift and recalibration about how the world approaches and responds to its greatest challenges.” […]
A documentary film on the world’s water crisis opens this weekend.
Where are the world’s biggest sources of renewable energy? According to The Economist, while wind and solar power are growing strongly, hydropower — the biggest source of renewables — has only added 3 percent to capacity. The inventor of “waterless” fracking tells InsideClimate why his method could be a game-changer for the energy industry. We […]
Launching in June, the Aquarius satellite mission will improve scientific understanding of the global water cycle.
James G. Workman reflects on a recent ruling that compromises the water rights of the Bushmen.
Following the Plastiki’s journey 11,000 miles through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch–a Texas-sized gyre of plastic litter.
The close of economic journalist Steven Solomon’s book is a reflection on the new meaning of water given today’s scarcity crisis. Solomon connects freshwater’s past and present to paint a future, and potentially very unstable picture of human civilization. By redefining facets of this precious resource, however, he presents the foundation of finding global solutions.
In an ongoing effort to understand the connections between water resources, water systems, and international security and conflict, the Pacific Institute initiated a project in the late 1980s to track and categorize events related to water and conflict.
Africa News Southern Africa Water Wire IPS-hosted African News Feed Asian carp A list of eating instructions The Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries posted a video and instructions on carp consumption. Asian Carp Management An official U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Web site designed to coordinate control and management of Asian carp in the […]
Since the dawn of Homo sapiens in arid Africa, nine tenths of our evolution has unfolded as foragers. Only relatively recently did our species embark on agriculture, and recent events suggest certain limits to that extraordinary experiment. Exponential population growth has combined with unprecedented climate change until half the planet’s land surface can now be classified as drylands—arid landscapes inhabited by a third of humankind.
Fred Krupp, of the Environmental Defense Fund, talks carbon, Obama and more.
