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The Global Rundown An alarming number of citizens in China have been killed or are missing because of intense flooding. The history of drought in Ghana could hold clues to avoiding famine. One U.S. agtech startup is re-engineering drought-resistant seeds at the microbial level. Regional drought is effecting the Amazon’s ability to mitigate global carbon. An unlikely Olympic athlete from a […]
The Global Rundown Scientists in Israel are pulling water from out of thin air. Farmers in Australia remain out of luck when it comes to government subsidized drought insurance. Farmers in Afghanistan, however, are benefiting from government sponsored programs. The United Nations and South Korea have teamed up to support impoverished women in Viet Nam. Violence connected to water is […]
The Global Rundown Laos recently signed a new agreement with the World Bank which should help bring water to more of its remote, mountain-dwelling citizens. Namibia is losing important construction jobs over its ongoing drought. Half of all U.S. states have some degree of corrosive groundwater. An unlikely Nebraska-Dubai joint effort may mean new drought solutions for the Middle […]
The Global Rundown Flooding and droughts are causing China and several African nations, including South Africa and Kenya, to look beyond their borders for assistance and solutions. Growing better grass could make for more drought resistant crops. Meanwhile, US citizens are growing increasingly concerned with the current climate change discourse (or lack thereof). The UK […]
The Global Rundown The agricultural sectors in both Canada and Namibia are suffering as a result of ongoing drought. Computers in California and genetically selected beans in Central America are being employed to improve water efficiency. Mexico City should soon be the recipient of numerous simple, but effective rainwater systems. Meanwhile, a Maine teenager is building biodegradable stream cleaning buoys in her parents’ basement. In Bangladesh, previously […]
The Global Rundown State agencies forecast snowmelt from California’s Sierra Nevada mountains will amount to just three-quarters of normal levels this year, prolonging the state’s drought. Low water levels in India’s Rajasthan state are delaying crop planting, wile high water levels in Germany have closed a section of the Rhine River to shipping. Scientists warn […]
The Global Rundown Millions of people across 15 African countries are still struggling with inadequate food supplies on the heels of one of the worst droughts in decades. Water, food, and electricity shortages in Venezuela have forced many students and teachers from their classrooms. The glacial source of the Ganga River is shrinking due to […]
Low water, less hydropower revenue prompt U.S. utility to seek a buyer of Latin America power plants.
The Global Rundown Singapore is now able meet its own water needs without relying on outside supplies from Malaysia, where a drought this year caused shortages. Recovering water levels at hydropower dams in Venezuela have prompted the government to scale back electricity rationing. Australia’s prime minister announced plans for a fund to reduce nutrient runoff […]
Shortages of power, food, supplies wrack country. By Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue Though June is generally the start of the rainy season in Venezuela, much of the country remains drier than normal, a moisture deficit that affects the country’s capacity to generate electricity and is aggravating a severe economic recession that is prompting looting, […]
The Global Rundown Water levels in India’s 91 reservoirs are at the lowest points in a decade and water levels are also falling in aquifers– which supply 85 percent of the country’s drinking water. More than two decades of U.S. Geological Survey data show what contaminants are increasing in the United States groundwater, and which are […]
Water scarcity forces millions of people off of farms and into teeming cities. By Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue On Monday, as it’s been for weeks now, hundreds of farmers from mountainous Bundelkhand, a drought-ravaged region of north central India, climbed down from the Mahakaushal Express and headed for the highway underpasses near Delhi’s Nizamuddin […]
