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The Global Rundown Communities in Papua New Guinea, already struggling from food and water shortages due to a drought, are now reeling from floods and landslides. The amount of water Adelaide, Australia takes from the River Murray has increased despite a new desalination plant, while water bills in Victoria are expected to increase next year […]
The Global Rundown The recent 15-year drought in Syria is likely the region’s driest period in nearly a millennium, a new study found. A drought in Tasmania is curbing hydropower supplies, and California snowpack is still below average. Meanwhile, intense rain triggered floods and landslides in Peru. Mining companies responsible for a deadly tailings dam […]
River flows are historically low in Vietnam.
The Global Rundown Central Asia should prepare for scarce water supplies in the Amu Darya river basin this year, according to the president of Tajikistan. A drought in Africa has cut water flows over Victoria Falls to 30-year lows. Shutting off the water supply to New Delhi was a calculated move by protesters frustrated by […]
Though El Nino has peaked, its effects linger across the continent.
The Global Rundown Millions of children are severely malnourished in Africa because of ongoing droughts, according to the United Nations. El Nino-linked droughts across the continent have hit countries like Mozambique particularly hard, destroying consecutive harvests. In India, successive droughts have forced some farmers to sell their blood for income. Globally, conflicts related to water […]
The Global Rundown A three-year drought in Haiti threatens millions of people with hunger, the United Nations warned, while the contaminated water used to grow vegetables in Tanzania’s cities places consumer health at risk. After two years of drought, barges are once again traveling on a key waterway used to transport agricultural products in Brazil. […]
The Global Rundown Zimbabwe announced plans to declare a national emergency as it faces food shortages amid a severe drought, while water levels rose at Kariba dam, potentially avoiding a shutdown of one of Zambia’s major hydropower plants. Coal last year dropped to its smallest portion of U.S. electricity generation since records began, an Australian […]
The Global Rundown A severe drought may double or even triple the number of people needing emergency food aid in Zimbabwe. Drinking water quality has declined in South Africa, a government report found, while the economic costs of a lead-contaminated drinking water crisis in Flint, Michigan, may just be starting. Projects to clean up Brazil’s […]
The Global Rundown Water supplies in Zimbabwe’s dams may not last until the start of the October rainy season due to a a severe drought stretching across southern Africa. Droughts linked to El Nino have also exacerbated food shortages and humanitarian crises in the Asia-Pacific region, where UNICEF is appealing for millions of dollars to […]
Metcroc farm is full of slow moving product that doesn’t bite….hard. Photo © Keith Schneider / Circle of Blue Juvenile crocs rest by a large pool in a kind of hyper-alert somnolence. Metcroc is one of the dozen or so croc farms that produce the bulk of the 45,000 skins that the United Nations estimates […]
