Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
In an excellent speech given in Johannesburg earlier this month, George Monbiot looks frankly and damningly at the state of corporate journalism, who’s institutional interests are at odds with any potential policy changes addressing climate change and resource depletion, such as the imminent global oil peak.
As part of Planet Under Pressure, a BBC News Online series looking at some of the biggest environmental problems facing humanity, Alex Kirby explores fears of an impending global water crisis.
Southern Africa faces major challenges to feed its swelling populations and to keep its wells from running dry, a study showed.
Cherrapunjee, in the northeastern state of Meghalaya (the “Land of Clouds”), is a “wet desert”, and a case study in environmental degradation, deforestation and resource mismanagement.
Coke and Pepsi today came under attack from some social organisations for alleged excessive use of ground water and causing pollution.
Water problem has of late become of great concern to many African countries. At a recent conference attended by 1000 delegates in Addis Ababa, water experts said that Africa was facing a water crisis affecting 300 million people.
Asian farmers drilling millions of pump-operated wells in an ever-deeper search for water are threatening to suck the continent’s underground reserves dry, a science magazine warned on Wednesday.
The risk of wars being fought over water is rising because of explosive global population growth and widespread complacency, scientists said.
The energy security of the United States is closely linked to the state of its water resources.
Population growth and energy demand are exhausting the world’s fossil energy supplies,
some on the timescale of a single human lifespan. Increasingly, sharing natural resources
will require close international cooperation, peace, and security.
In an updated version of an influential 1972 book on the dangers facing the planet, the authors confirm that the earth is taxed and overcommitted. But, as they say, knowing is half the battle.
Throughout southern Africa, cable theft is ubiquitous, a sort of third-world analog to first-world thefts of car radios.
