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13 Feb 2022 NEW YORK NY
Pacific Northwest Flooding Sparks Debate
A long-running dispute over how best to manage the Nooksack River had gotten worse. It’s a fight that pits farmers against Native communities, the US against Canada, and the demands of development against the demands of conservation. In short, it’s the kind of fight that many Westerners have seen before.
21 Jul 2021 Washington DC, United States
US Drought Brings Wildfires, Water Shortages, Crop Failure
As the west of the US swelters and burns under sustained drought conditions, there are wider implications for national security and global food prices. Water levels in the Colorado River system are dangerously low and states are bickering over access to irrigation waters.
25 May 2021 DENVER CO
Western US Girds For This Year's Fire Season
About 84 Percent of the western US is under some level of drought, Western states prepare for dangerous forest fires this summer.
17 Dec 2020 GENEVA, Switzerland
Disastrous Climate Damage Continued In 2020
The World Meterological Organization (WMO) assesses that 2020 is on track to be the second warmest year in the most recent decade, with the warmest six years being since 2015.Preliminary information, based on data collected from January to October 2020, shows how high-impact events such as floods, extreme heat and wildfires affected millions of people...
3 Nov 2020 WASHINGTON DC, United States
"We Found Water On The Moon!"; "No, WE Found Water On The Moon!"
US government space agency NASA has confirmed, for the first time, the presence of water on the sunlit surface of the moon. However Russian-state media Sputnik claims that the USSR space agency prevoiusly discovered water on the moon in the 1970s.Sputnik states that "if NASA scientists had read a bit more work from their Soviet colleagues, they might have realized that the Soviet Union's Luna 24 probe made this discovery in 1976...
20 Aug 2020 NEW YORK NY
Climate Change Risks To Hydropower Projects
Rising temperatures have brought more rain and are causing the glaciers feeding hydropower plants to melt faster, leading to more frequent floods and higher water inflows. At the same time, longer and more intense droughts are depleting water basins from Central Europe to the Western U.S., while the changing climate is also shifting patterns of precipitation and, in some places, remolding the landscape altogether...
5 Aug 2020 IRVINE CA
Assessing Regional Impacts Of "Snow Droughts"
Environmental engineers at the University of California, Irvine have developed a new framework for characterizing snow droughts around the world. Using this tool to analyze conditions from 1980 to 2018, the researchers found a 28-percent increase in the length of intensified snow-water deficits in the Western United States during the second half of the study period...
10 Jun 2020 GENEVA, Switzerand
Niger: Malian Refugees Killed And Water Facility Destroyed In Armed Attack On Camp
Over 50 armed men on motorbikes attacked a refugee camp in western Niger 31 May, killing two Malian refugee leaders and a local host community leader. The site hosts some 20,000 refugees and an additional 15,000 displaced Niger nationals. The United Nations High Commission on Human Rights (UNHCR) reports that the gunmen then torched food supplies and aid items, destroyed mobile phone towers and the main water station and pipe network...
25 Apr 2020 BILLINGS MT, United States
US Judge Halts Tar Sands Pipeline, Citing Ecosystem Impacts Of Water-crossings
A federal judge in the US state of Montana has ruled that the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) violated the law when it approved an important water-crossing permit for the contentious Keystone XL tar sands pipeline system which runs from the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin in Alberta, Canada to refineries, oil tank farms and pipeline distribution systems in central and southern US states...
27 Dec 2019 BAGHDAD, Iraq
Water Scarcity And Conflict Are Drivers Of Iraq Migration Patterns
While human migration in northern Iraq is often driven by conflict, in the south of the country it is more often linked to livelihood factors such as water scarcity and the loss of arable land according to a new report. This first "Migration Profile" of Iraq, released 19 December, is a joint effort of the Iraq Ministries of Migration and Displacement, Foreign Affairs, Justice, Labor and Social Affairs, Planning, Interior in cooperation with the International Organization for Migration (IOM)...
27 Dec 2019 ANKARA, Turkey
Conflict Then Flash Floods: 230,000 Children Affected In Northern Syria
Flash flooding in northern Syria has particularly affected over 230,000 children who have already been displaced by conflict in 2019, according to NGO Save the Children.In Northwest Syria, several camps were inundated, with the rain destroying about 500 tents and additional tents being abandoned when they became uninhabitable...
19 Dec 2019 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan
Pakistan To Demand Indus Treaty Arbitration Proceedings
A Pakistan government delegation visiting Washington DC this month was expected to demand establishment of a court of arbitration to address concerns over India’s two hydroelectric power projects – Kishanganga and Ratle, under terms of the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty between Pakistan and India.The group, headed by Pakistan’s Indus Water Commissioner Syed Mehr Ali Shah left for the United States 15 December, and was expected to stay for five days of meetings, particularly with the World Bank (WB) which acts as Arbitrator to the Treaty...