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7 Dec 2020 LONDON, United Kingdom
New Tool Helps Countries Track Changes In Surface Water Supply
A new tool from the United Kingdom's Office for National Statistics (ONS) will enable countries around the world keep track of changes in surface water supply.The tool uses processed imagery from the Global Surface Water Explorer dataset, developed by the United Nations, the European Commission Joint Research Centre and Google, transforming information into tables and maps, which can be used by governments to create clear measurements to show changes over time...
4 Dec 2020 WASHINGTON DC, United States
Reactions To John Kerry As New US "Climate Czar"
United States President-elect Joe Biden’s appointment of John Kerry as “climate czar” has been met with praise as Kerry is a leading architect of the Paris (2015) climate agreement. In addition, former Secretary of State Kerry is viewed to have the experience and stature to negotiate with other state leaders when the US rejoins the agreement in 2021...
29 Sep 2020 PARIS, France
International Network of Basin Organisations: Webinar 13 October
Current environment crises such as wild forest fires in California and the Brazilian Pantanal, drought in the lower Mekong River, and floods in Senegal are all examples of disasters that are warnings about the dramatic consequences of climate change.Global funding to implement adaptation measures is insufficient...
2 Sep 2020 RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil
Latin American Countries Cooperate In Innovative Plan To Tackle Climate Change In Arid Regions
A new project was launched in August to enable people in the semiarid regions of Latin America to work together to share knowledge, address the climate crisis, and find more sustainable and humane ways to live.The DAKI-Semiárido Vivo Project (or Dryland Adaptation Knowledge Initiative), launched in August, will focus on three dry areas of Latin America most vulnerable to the effects of climate change: Gran Chaco Americano (in Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia), the Central American Dry Corridor and the semiarid region of north-eastern Brazil...
1 Sep 2020 SANA'A, Yemen
Rain And Flash Floods Leave 300,000 Homeless In Yemen
Three months of torrential rain and flash floods have left an estimated 300,000 people homeless in war-torn Yemen, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said 28 August.Many of those people newly displaced by the floods had already been forced to flee their homes because of the ongoing conflict in the country...
1 Sep 2020 STOCKHOLM, Sweden
Japan Team Lands 2020 Stockholm Junior Water Prize
HRH Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden awarded the Stockholm Junior Water Prize 2020 to Hiroki Matsuhashi and Takuma Miyaki of Japan in an online ceremony during an unusual "World Water Week at Home" 25 August.The Japanese team focused on water conservation and soil management and developed a method to control soil runoff and increase food production, using traditional Japanese soil solidification technologies...
6 Jul 2020 BEIJING, China
China Releases Water From Three Gorges Dam To Alleviate Flooding As Torrential Rains Persist
China's Ministry of Water Resources upgraded its emergency response for flood control from Level Four to Level Three on 4 July, as incessant rains continue across the country. Level One is the highest level of response.Water levels in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River as well as Dongting Lake and Poyang Lake have been rising as a result of sustained rainfall...
11 Oct 2019 COLUMBIA SC
US State Greenlights Vast Google Drinking Water Extraction Plan
South Carolina on Wednesday approved allowing Google to pump nearly 550 million gallons of drinking water per year to cool its servers. The decision from the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) is the latest salvo in an ongoing battle over whether the tech giant should get state approval to pump from a major water source that critics say is being depleted.
26 Mar 2019 NAIROBI
Google, UNEP Partnership Will Make Water Data Globally Accessible
Water scarcity is widely considered to be the next major issue impacting the world over the coming years. One way to start tackling the problem is by getting a better understanding of current conditions. Google has partnered with UN Environment and others to provide free and open data on the natural resource around the world...
10 Sep 2018 MENLO PARK
Google Launches Water, Energy Footprint Tool
In a new interactive online tool launched today by Google, you can find out how much energy and water you’re using (and wasting) when doing the things we all do: wash our clothes, take showers, throw out spoiled foods and more. This tool helps to make two of the most basic and yet also opaque necessities of life — energy and water — a little more tangible...
18 Jul 2018 NEW YORK, NY
UNEP And Google Announce Collaboration On Mapping Water-Related Ecosystems
UN Environment (UNEP) and Google announced a global partnership July 16 that aims to expand what the world knows about the impacts of human activity on global ecosystems.Long term, the partnership hopes to establish a platform for open-source data and analysis of the UN Sustainable Development Goals...
3 Jul 2018 MANILA, Philippines
Climate Change Expert Challenges "Fake News" About Disappearing Philippines Cities
Reports from online "news" sources claiming that global warming will lead to seven Philippine cities disappearing underwater in a “few” or “several” years have been challenged by a leading Philippine climate change expert, AFP reports, saying that Asian Development Bank (ADB) research cited in the posts does not support the dramatic claim, nor does the report used to guide global climate policies...