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The desert city of Amman is running out of water. Meanwhile, officials fixate on gleaming visions of growth, perpetuating the fantasy that urban dy... (2023)
Climate change is starting to transform the classic home loan, a fixture of the American experience and financial system that dates back generations. (2020)
More of them have happened than most people think (2019)
The state’s aquifers are shrinking, yet corporations want to appropriate even more of them. (2019)
As the dangers and costs of climate change rise, policymakers are facing painful choices about how to decide which communities to protect. (2019)
When Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth was released in 2006, some of its most striking images depicted the flooding of major cities from dramati... (2019)
Hundreds of miles of levees in the Midwest have been overwhelmed by the floods, leaving “Swiss cheese” infrastructure and reigniting a flood contro... (2019)
In 2017, voters agreed to finance adaptation efforts through property taxes. Now the first phase of those projects is underway. (2019)
Maps of drainage basins of the world in great detail and gorgeous colors created by 33-year-old Hungarian cartographer Robert Szucs. (2019)
Can engineering save Louisiana’s coastline? (2018)
The city has another serious water problem. (2018)
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals - Time for Global Action for People and Planet (2018)
Plastic trash less than 5 millimeters long is in the things we eat and drink, and the air we breathe. Scientists are just beginning to study where ... (2018)
Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn Centennial Park can hold a million gallons of rainwater to help control the city’s increasing floods. (2018)
The well-heeled denizens of South Mumbai who enjoy their morning walks along Marine Drive, the city (2018)
The $2.5 trillion fashion industry is the second-largest user (pdf) of water globally, according to the United Nations Economic Commission for Euro... (2018)
BUILDING a wall of trees across the width of Africa is a tall order. Solving the twin problems of land degradation and desertification poses a grea... (2018)
INDIA vies with China to be the world’s fastest-growing large economy, but its record on basic sanitation is dreadful. Around 450m people relieve t... (2018)
WINDY cattle have always had an impact on their environment. But in New Zealand, where pastures that once grazed sheep have been converted into dai... (2018)
We only need to look to the Mediterranean Sea, and, more recently, the Great Lakes, for dramatic illustrations of what lies in store if we don’t ac... (2018)
IN mid-2016 the River Seine in central Paris burst its banks. It rose to 6.1 metres, briefly closed the Louvre and Musée d’Orsay, disrupted trains ... (2018)
THE people of Cape Town have spent recent years praying for rain. It has not come often enough. Lawns have faded to brown and swimming pools have g... (2018)
The slender, delicate stream flows through the Mojave, giving life to plants and animals found nowhere else in the world. "The Amargosa River is... (2018)
Louisiana is finalizing a plan to move thousands of people from areas threatened by the rising Gulf of Mexico, effectively declaring uninhabitable ... (2017)
Autumn rains came too late to save the stunted stalks of Shu Xinguo’s corn crop, withered by a dry July growing season. (2017)
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understandi... (2019)
An ambitious project plans to use seawater and solar power for agriculture. But is it technically feasible? (2018)
Coca-Cola Sucks Wells Dry in Chiapas, Forcing Residents to Buy Water. Coca-Cola's water use is causing a health crisis in Chiapas. (2017)
Cities encourage potentially devastating floods by laying down asphalt and pavement. Could this be avoided by making them "spongier" and more absor... (2017)
The Mekong river is being damaged by sand extraction, adding to calls for limits on sand usage. (2019)
With the recent flooding of New York and New Jersey by hurricane Sandy it is a good time to revisit New Orleans and the work that was done by the U... (2016)
Our survival depends on water, yet global reserves are rapidly shrinking. It's now replaced oil as the most likely cause of global conflict. Can te... (2024)
The Panama Canal is running out of water, threatening to slow down the global supply chains and economies that depend on it. 40% of all U.S. contai... (2023)
An overview of seawater desalination: removing salt to make drinkable water from the ocean (2023)
Ethiopia, Egypt, Sudan and water from the Nile: Why This Circle Could Spark Africa’s Biggest War (2023)
The quintessential image of a river you might recognise from post cards and paintings – nice and straight with a tidy riverbank – is not actually h... (2023)
Egypt plans to green its desert Egypt is growing at two million people a year. Urban infrastructures can'... (2023)
The Simple Genius of New York City’s Water Supply System (2022)
How Libya Built Brand-New Rivers Across the Sahara (2022)
How 4.5 Million People Nearly Ran Out of Water (2022)
John Oliver discusses the water shortage in the American west, how it’s already impacting the people who live there, and what God has to say about ... (2022)
Overview of the Boyce Hydro System and What we know so far. LINKS: Drone Footage (2020)
Insider 5.63M subscribers Every year Venice, Italy, experiences seasonal flooding, which is known as acqua alta. The video dives into why Veni... (2020)
For the past two decades, the residents of Martin county and the surrounding areas have been faced with a silent curse. A guacamole thick mat of bl... (2019)
CAFOD Published on Aug 16, 2016 The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as part of Agenda 2030 Su... (2018)
The Official 700 Club Published on Sep 3, 2013 Gordon Robertson looks at Israel's remarkable agricultural innovation, with special focus on the... (2018)
PBS NewsHour Published on Apr 26, 2015 Over the past few years in Israel, the country's water shortage has become a surplus. Through a combinat... (2018)
"Desertification is a fancy word for land that is turning to desert," begins Allan Savory in this quietly powerful talk. And terrifyingly, it's hap... (2018)
Sugar: bad for you and bad for our waterways. (2018)
Plastic trash less than 5 millimeters long is in the things we eat and drink, and the air we breathe. Scientists are just beginning to study where ... (2018)
Mexico City is in a water crisis. Despite rains and floods, it is running out of drinking water. To solve the scarcity issue, the city began pipin... (2019)
An expert on the impact of climate change on financial markets has advice for anyone thinking of buying a home in Florida: don’t. Spencer Glendon o... (2019)
Flood Factor is a free online tool created by the nonprofit First Street Foundation that makes it easy for Americans to find their property’s past ... (2020)