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Rockefeller Foundation Seeking 2013 ‘Innovation Award’ Nominations
The Rockefeller Foundation’s 2013 nomination portal highlights Circle of Blue, winner of the Centennial Innovation Award last year for our innovative journalism model.
Toxic Water: Across Much of China, Huge Harvests Irrigated with Industrial and Agricultural Runoff
The dirty truth about the world’s largest grain producer.
On Water and Energy, India Is Different
It’s been a couple of weeks since our Circle of Blue team completed its 27-day research trip to India.
Water News: What’s Ahead in 2013
Drought, water disputes, debates about energy development — “more of the same” is what to expect this year. Photo © Aubrey Ann Parker / Circle of Blue In the waning days of 2012, India’s state governments approved a plan for the federal government to tackle a new national water policy to regulate the use of […]
Top 10 Water News Stories of 2012
Best-in-class reporting on the confrontation between water, food, and energy that influenced policy making in Asia, proved invaluable to university researchers in Europe, and informed citizens and the media in the United States and around the world.
2012 Year In Review: At the Front Line of the Global Contest Over Water, Food, and Energy
Circle of Blue’s senior editor Keith Schneider reflects on — and celebrates — this year’s body of work from our top reporters.
Delhi Dispatch: Rice, Wheat, and Water Serve Up Equal Helpings of Punjab’s Wealth and Risk
Free power, water, fertilizer, and chemicals encourages abuse of resources for world’s number two rice and wheat producer.
Map: China’s Provincial Grain Production (1997-2010)
Click through the interactive infographic to see how China, the world’s largest nation and second-largest economy, has shifted its bread baskets to the north.
Delhi Dispatch: No Running Water But a Delhi Slum Hut Community Teems With Life
Squatter village defies the label of temporary.
China’s Water Reserves and World’s Warming Atmosphere Wait For Natural Gas Breakthrough
China’s deep shale reserves are treacherous to tap and slow to develop.
Photo Slideshow: Irrigating Northeastern China’s Breadbasket
By J. Carl Ganter and Keith Schneider The northeast region of China, including Heilongjiang, Liaoning and Jilin provinces, is among the world’s most important breadbaskets. Earlier this year, as Circle of Blue reported in this Choke Point: China article, China’s central government announced a five-year, $US 6.3 billion program to rebuild and expand irrigation networks […]
