Study: Overpumping Draws Down the World’s Groundwater Reserves
Groundwater depletion doubled between 1960 and 2000.
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Kyrgyzstan Launches Controversial Hydropower Plant
The country’s energy ambitions could intensify water competition in Central Asia.
Parag Khanna: How Resource Scarcity Will Lead to a New Global Order
The new global order looks more like a global disorder right now.
More Houses Submerged as Water Levels Rise in Pakistan’s Attabad Lake
Officials have begun blasting boulders to expand the spillway of glacial melt.
Natural Gas Found in Aral Sea’s Dry Bed
Test wells produce the first significant volumes of gas, confirming speculation about gas reserves in the region.
Glacial Melt Could Cause Tidal Wave in Pakistan
A tidal wave, reaching up to 60 meters high, is expected to race through the Hunza valley of the Himalayas.
Experts Name the Top 19 Solutions to the Global Freshwater Crisis
“…Decisions executives make to respond to freshwater scarcity will penetrate almost every aspect of their business operations.”
Landslide Lake Puts Pakistani Villages at Risk of Flooding
Thousands of Pakistani villagers are at risk if a landslide-formed lake breaches its rock dam.
Q&A: One Man’s Fight to Save the Aral Sea
As the Aral Sea gains global recognition as the most extreme kind of environmental disaster, Yusup Kamalov, chairman of the Union for the Defense of the Aral Sea and Amudarya, shares an expert’s perspective.
International Cooperation Needed to Save Aral Sea, UN Secretary-General
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visits During a visit to five former Soviet republics, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon encouraged Central Asian leaders to work together to keep the Aral Sea from disappearing.
NASA Satellite Photos Capture a Decade of Land and Water Changes
As part of its 10-year anniversary, NASA’s Earth Observatory has compiled a gallery of images showing annual changes in the Earth’s land, water and atmosphere in places such as Central Asia, Australia, Iraq and the Amazon.
Melting Glaciers Cause Potential Flooding Problems
Emerald lakes are beautiful, but rapidly melting glaciers can cause them to inundate villages downstream.
