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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.

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...

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...

25 Oct 2019 Washington DC, United States

Remarkable US Army Climate Change Report Studies Conflict Risk, What Caused Syria War, Bangladesh Risk, Geo-engineering!

A combination of global starvation, war, drought and disease could have devastating effects on world security according to a report from several United States agencies including the US Army, Defense Intelligence Agency, and NASA, under the rubric of the United States Army War College.The study, “Implications of Climate Change for the U...

24 Sep 2019 NEW YORK NY

Did US Govt Ignore Its Own Evidence Of Climate Change Impacts On Migration From Central America?

Research compiled one year ago by Customs and Border Protection pointed to an overwhelming factor driving record-setting migration to the U.S. from Guatemala: Crop shortages were leaving rural Guatemalans, especially in the country's western highlands, in extreme poverty and starving. An internal report that was circulated to senior Homeland Security officials showed that migration surged from those areas of Guatemala without reliable subsistence farming or wages from commercial farming jobs.

24 Feb 2019 WASHINGTON, DC, United Statess

Trump To Challenge His Own Agencies' Climate Change Risk Assessment

A new United States “Presidential Committee on Climate Security” will undertake an "adversarial" review of climate science to determine if research has overstated the risks posed by global warming according to a White House memorandum leaked this week. The group will be run by William Happer, a prominent opponent of climate science in the climate-change-denying administration of the country’s President Donald Trump...

3 Feb 2019 WASHINGTON DC, United States

US Intelligence Community Warns Of Climate Change Threats

"Climate hazards such as extreme weather, higher temperatures, droughts, floods, wildfires, storms, sea level rise, soil degradation, and acidifying oceans are intensifying, threatening infrastructure, health, and water and food security," according a new report representing the consensus view among the US's top intelligence officials...

8 May 2018 DONETSK, Ukraine

Ukraine: US OSCE Envoy Hits Out At Russia Over Security At Donetsk Filter Station

The Chargé d’Affaires of the US Mission to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) has spoken out in strong terms to OSCE leadership about the deteriorating security situation around the Donetsk water filtration station in Eastern Ukraine, laying blame firmly at the door of Russia...

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