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Water management trails climate change on companies’ agenda, despite significant near-term risk and opportunity, according to the Carbon Disclosure Project’s (CDP) Water Disclosure global report. Two percent of the global gross domestic product (GDP) should be invested in 10 industries — including water, agriculture and energy — to start making the global economy more sustainable, […]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will release its final report on the effects of fracking in 2014. The initial research findings are due next year, The New York Times Green blog reported. The study will look at the full cycle of water in hydraulic fracturing. Energy U.S. energy policy should not fixate on maximizing job […]
Farmers around the world should brace for higher temperatures and more frequent droughts, as climate change is reducing water availability and melting glaciers will eventually cut water supplies in major producing areas, Reuters reported, citing the the Food and Agriculture Organization. The U.S. Geological Survey projects that warming and snowpack decline in the Rocky Mountains […]
A dire drought is forcing France to set severe restrictions on farmers’ water use in 26 of the country’s 96 departmental administrative areas, Bloomberg reports. The American South is on the opposite side of the spectrum. The opening of a major spillway to relieve flooding along the Mississippi River will channel floodwaters toward homes, farms, […]
National delegations, in addition to interest groups, are pushing water higher on the climate agenda
Groundwater depletion doubled between 1960 and 2000.
Where should the public, not versed in climate science, look for their information and knowledge about this debate about climate change?
For two weeks in Copenhagen last month climate negotiators debated carbon levels, emissions, and balancing the financial burden of saving the planet among developed and developing countries. Still, even as international leaders wrestled with the complex mix of geopolitics, science, economics, and diplomacy, another important ingredient in the climate crisis was barely mentioned: the effect of the warming planet on the Earth’s freshwater.
Our second installment of COP15 coverage reflects on the overdue, yet changing tide of American climate policy.
Chewang Norphel, a civil engineer known locally as the Glacier Man, has been building artificial glaciers to supply irrigation water for the villages of the Ladakh region for the last 15 years. Norphel constructs the glaciers by redirecting autumn and winter melt to shady valleys above the fields.
After two decades, scientists in Nepal are on the ground for in-the-field Himalaya studies.
Residents of Derna, Libya, a city already with thousands of refugees, are reckoning with another displacement as a result of drought, mismanaged dams, and Storm Daniel.
