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Could Insurance Markets Help Water Utilities Respond to Drought?
Drought restrictions and wet summers shake utility budgets. Researchers propose a new financial tool. Photo © J. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue A town in California’s Central Valley touches the edge of...
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Four Billion People Face Severe Water Scarcity
Cities, farming regions, and arid lands are most affected, study finds. By Brett Walton Circle of Blue Two-thirds of the planet’s population, or 4 billion people, lives at least one month per year with...
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Severe Drought Tightens Pressure in Mekong River Basin
River flows are historically low in Vietnam. A small tributary canal of the Mekong, north of Can Tho, Vietnam, where salinification is damaging rice fields and fruit orchards. © J Carl Ganter /...
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Climate Change Effects On Conflict Are Complex, Tenuous, And Misunderstood
Climate change is here, but will we fight over it? March 15 marked five years of civil war in Syria, which has created 4.8 million refugees. While some researchers have linked the start of the war to a...
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Infographic: Syria Drought and Climate Change
Winter rainfall in the Fertile Crescent has declined 13 percent since 1931. By Kaye LaFond, Circle of Blue In March 2015, a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences laid...
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El Nino Is Over But the Damage Continues
More than 60 million people face hunger, malnutrition. Grain elevators rise above farm fields in Mpumalanga province, in northeastern South Africa. Africa’s largest grain producer will import maize...
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Earth Day, At 47, Proves Value of Water and More
Ecological principles guide economic strategies to fit 21st-century conditions. Mekong River floodwaters force Vietnamese farmers to erect barricades to protect their fields. From 1980 to 2014, 41...
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Climate Change Threatens Health of Pacific Island Nations
As storms grow stronger, communities and public health infrastructure are at risk. Over a period of three days in April 2014, more than 600 millimeters of rain fell on Honiara, the capital of the...
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Water-Related Risks Strand $Billions in Energy, Mining, Power Projects
Droughts, floods, and civic opposition cause huge losses. A stranded asset in the making. The Kusile coal-fired power plant in South Africa is years overdue, billions over budget, and may not have...
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Understanding Water Risks Drives Global Investors
Finance managers develop tools to avoid losses. Coal combustion consumes immense amounts of water. In April, China issued a notice that it would not build 200 new coal-fired power plants capable of...
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India’s Severe Drought Causing Havoc
Water scarcity forces millions of people off of farms and into teeming cities. The latest national drought assessment shows that 19 of the 36 states and territories in India are experiencing moisture...
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North America Clean Energy Plan Could Boost Canadian Hydropower
Leaders pledge more use of low-carbon fuels. Shawinigan hydropower complex, in Quebec, has generated electricity for more than 100 years. The North American Clean Energy Plan, announced on June 29,...
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