Water and Climate

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Mountain Regions, ‘Taking the Heat,’ Face Growing Hazards As Ice Melts, UN Climate Panel Warns

In Australia, Echoes of Past, Glimpses of Future As Country Braces for Hot, Dry Summer

UN Secretary General Hails ‘Turning Point’ in Climate Crisis Fight

Slimy Lakes and Dead Dogs: Climate Crisis has Brought the Season of Toxic Algae

‘Our Land Is No Use Any More’: India’s Struggle To Save Its Farms

The US Navy Has a Water Problem

UN Secretary General Urges Public Pressure Against Climate “Emergency”

‘Like a Sunburn on Your Lungs’: How Does the Climate Crisis Impact Health?

A New Beginning for Climate Reporting

5 Things You Need To Know About Water And Climate

Costs of Water Pollution, a Global Scourge, ‘Underestimated and Underappreciated’

The Next Urban Water Crisis? Inadequate Data Clouds the Forecast

Climate Week Reports

Adapt Now: The Urgency of Action

Global Center of Adaptation

Policy Brief on Climate and Water

United Nations

Quality Unknown: The Invisible Water Crisis

World Bank

Climate Change and Land

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC)

Belt and Road countries will make or break the Paris Agreement

China Dialogue

Additional Climate Coverage

Biggest Dry

In 2009, the brutal Australian drought emerged as “The Biggest Dry.” This is no mere statement of hyperbole, scientists tell us. It’s what happens when a nation purposefully designed to use an enormous amount of water collides with a hotter and dryer climate that produces much less rain.

The Biggest Dry is not only a global warning, it is a test of an industrial society’s ability to cope with new and dangerous conditions that threaten its ability to survive. Read more.

Video: U.S. – China Climate Pact is the Real Deal

Circle of Blue’s Keith Schneider discusses the implications of the landmark climate agreement.

Weeks before negotiators met in Lima in December 2014 to lay the groundwork for a climate change treaty, they awoke to a surprise.

President Barack Obama and President Xi Jinping of China announced a historic pact. The two nations vowed to cap carbon emissions and collaborate on new technologies that create cleaner, greener, healthier cities. The agreement included a provision to study the connections between energy production and water use. Learn more.

Tehuacán: Divining Destiny

On March 20, 2006 during the Fourth World Water Forum in Mexico City, Circle of Blue premiered “Tehuacán: Divining Destiny,” a pivotal, comprehensive multimedia report that focused the world’s attention on one community’s struggle with water scarcity, pollution and climate change. It was reported in multiple dimensions by Newsweek’s Latin America bureau chief Joe Contreras, World Press-winning Getty photojournalist Brent Stirton, and Circle of Blue’s multimedia team. Read more.