Circle of Blue provides relevant, reliable, and actionable on-the-ground information about the world’s resource crises.
The dust of Egypt’s leadership transition has barely begun to settle, and already the new government is working to forestall any loss in supply or access to the Nile’s waters. Meanwhile, Ethiopia continues upstream with one of the largest hydropower projects in the world.
Circle of Blue provides relevant, reliable, and actionable on-the-ground information about the world’s resource crises.
In reporting on the Nile River Basin, Circle of Blue spoke with Norbert Schiller, a journalist and photographer with more than 25 years of experience covering the Middle East and Africa. He is currently a columnist for Mint Press News.
Circle of Blue provides relevant, reliable, and actionable on-the-ground information about the world’s resource crises.
Though methane hydrate, a newly discovered unconventional natural gas reserve, is seen as an alternative to coal-fueled power, the technology for tapping deepwater supplies is not yet viable.
Circle of Blue provides relevant, reliable, and actionable on-the-ground information about the world’s resource crises.
The inauguration of Iraq’s first national park earlier this summer represents a step toward national rebuilding for the war-torn country. But restoration of Iraq’s marshes also offers a grander vision for regional water cooperation throughout the Middle East and elsewhere.
Circle of Blue provides relevant, reliable, and actionable on-the-ground information about the world’s resource crises.
Can war end in environmental rejuvenation? It did for Iraq’s Mesopotamian Marshlands, believed by many to be the Biblical Garden of Eden. The marshes — straddled between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that wind their way from Turkey’s eastern mountains through the desert plains of the Middle East — were systematically destroyed by Saddam Hussein’s […]
Circle of Blue provides relevant, reliable, and actionable on-the-ground information about the world’s resource crises.
Click through the interactive infographic to see how India, the world’s fastest-growing nation with the second-highest population, races to meet rising demand for energy.
Circle of Blue provides relevant, reliable, and actionable on-the-ground information about the world’s resource crises.
Most abundant in Chhattisgarh and the neighboring eastern states of Jharkhand and Odisha, India’s coal belt cinches the nation round the middle, tapering off in its westward stretch to both the south and north.
Circle of Blue provides relevant, reliable, and actionable on-the-ground information about the world’s resource crises.
Danish documentary explores the beating human heart of cities but fails to examine water in the urban landscape.
Circle of Blue provides relevant, reliable, and actionable on-the-ground information about the world’s resource crises.
Before the Green Revolution of the mid-1960s, growers in northern India produced an elegant feast of native fruits, grains, and vegetables. By the 1980s, Punjab and Haryana states had together become the largest rice and wheat producers in India.
Circle of Blue provides relevant, reliable, and actionable on-the-ground information about the world’s resource crises.
Home to 1 million, Chandigarh is considered the ‘cleanest city’ in India. It also has the highest per capita income, thanks in large part to the agricultural boom since the Green Revolution of the 1960s in both Punjab and Haryana states of northern India.
Circle of Blue provides relevant, reliable, and actionable on-the-ground information about the world’s resource crises.
A clutch of new data tools from Circle of Blue puts the Great Plains’ water crisis into context.
Circle of Blue provides relevant, reliable, and actionable on-the-ground information about the world’s resource crises.
A clutch of new data tools from Circle of Blue puts the Great Plains’ water crisis into context.
Circle of Blue provides relevant, reliable, and actionable on-the-ground information about the world’s resource crises.
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