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Constant, Compounding Disasters Are Exhausting Emergency Response
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Fires, droughts, floods, power outages. The interval between disasters is shortening, or in some cases disappearing altogether.
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Unstable Slopes: Nepal Landslide Highlights Risk to Lives and Infrastructure in Himalayas
Triggered by the April 25 earthquake, Kali Gandaki landslide reveals long-term challenges in the world’s highest mountain range.
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Nepal Earthquake Damages At Least 14 Hydropower Dams
Nation's power grid loses more than 30 percent of generating capacity.
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The Stream, October 23: Businesses and Water
The Carbon Disclosure Project of London, UK has released the…
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Beijing Under Water
Having recently returned from China, reporter Nadya Ivanova just missed flooding in the nation's capital that killed 37 people and closed airports.
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The Stream, March 6: An Essay on Hunger
Droughts and Floods
Today's must-read: Paul Salopek's beautiful,…
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Peter Gleick: Water Emergencies — Time for New Plans and Technology
The world faces a wide range of serious, complex, and long-term water challenges, from shortages to contamination to local and regional disputes over water to long-term climate changes. But there are other challenges that are short-term, emergency situations that could also be addressed by some new thinking and new technology.
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The Stream, June 20: Higher Food Prices
The world should brace itself for high food prices and volatility…
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Hungary Calls Emergency after Toxic Spill
Toxic leak in the Central European country threatens to reach a major international waterway.
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Peter Gleick: Water for Haiti, Now
Information on the disaster in Haiti is only slowly coming out, but it is clear that the magnitude and extent of the catastrophe is vast, in a land seemingly cursed by endless environmental destruction.
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Interactive Map: Biggest Dry
An interactive map of Circle of Blue's coverage of "The Biggest…
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