Q&A: How General Electric is Tackling the Water Crisis
Circle of Blue interviews General Electric Water’s Director of marketing Jeff Fulgham.
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Peter Gleick: Climate-change Deniers Versus the Scientific Societies of the World — Who Should we Listen to?
Where should the public, not versed in climate science, look for their information and knowledge about this debate about climate change?
Q&A: SustainAbility Survey Reveals Clean Water Shortages As Most Urgent Issue
For 15 years SustainAbility and GlobeScan have polled global thought leaders about the planet’s greatest sustainability challenges. The collaborating firms also release three “pulse” surveys based on three critical sustainability issues that most concern companies and their shareholders.
Taking the Pulse of Global Freshwater Issues
Circle of Blue on what’s happening and what will happen in the water world in 2010.
‘Superberg’ Detaches from Antarctic Glacier, Could Disrupt Ocean Currents
A giant iceberg collided with a branch of the Mertz Glacier in east Antarctica earlier this month, breaking off a 965-square-mile ‘superberg.’
The Price of Hydropower Pursuits in Patagonia
In Chile’s Trackless Mountain Wilderness, A Clash Between Pristine Rivers and Hydropower Prospects
U.S. Water Managers Gather at Global Conference To Brace for Climate Change
The people responsible for some of the largest water utilities in the U.S. gathered in Washington, D.C. last week to exchange climate change coping strategies with their overseas counterparts.
Heart of Dryness: Botswana’s Bushmen Fight for Human, Water Rights
The fifth installment of Workman’s book details the Bushmen’s painful legal battle for water access against the Botswana government, which had begun to use “intentional, compulsory thirst” on the indigenous community. Left little choice, the Bushmen pursued court action to make access to water a fundamental human right.
NASA Satellite Photos Capture a Decade of Land and Water Changes
As part of its 10-year anniversary, NASA’s Earth Observatory has compiled a gallery of images showing annual changes in the Earth’s land, water and atmosphere in places such as Central Asia, Australia, Iraq and the Amazon.
Heart of Dryness: The Rule of Water for Botswana’s Bushmen
In the fourth installment of Heart of Dryness, author James G. Workman explains the historic transformation of water across Botswana’s Kalahari. Workman continues to follow Qoroxloo, showing how the Bushmen have adapted to water scarcity and fluctuating hydrology.
U.S. Media Tarnishes Message of Copenhagen Climate Change Protest
Circle of Blue’s Aubrey Ann Parker reports on-the-ground from the Global Day of Action and reveals the truth behind sensational headlines that played up police arrests in Copenhagen.
Final Week of Copenhagen, the Last Act of Negotiations Remains Unclear
Like all spellbinding human dramas the United Nations Climate Change Conference, which today entered its second and last week, represents the accumulated chapters of an urgent script – the fate of the planet.
