Lake Urmia water level decreases by 28 cm in one year

By Trend T.Jafarov29 June 2013 Azerbaijan, Baku (Trend) – Lake Urmia’s water level has dropped by another 28 centimeters compared to the same period last year, the head of the department of water and water resources of Iran’s Ministry of Energy, Alireza Daimi said, the İRNA agency reported on Saturday. According to Daimi, the increased […]

Obama advisor in South Florida: Climate change is ‘the global threat of our time and for the sake of future generations the world has to get together to address this challenge’

By David Fleshler20 June 2013 (Sun Sentinel) – President Obama’s top environmental adviser came to Fort Lauderdale Thursday to express the administration’s commitment to fighting global warming and protecting the nation from rising sea levels. The president considers climate change “the global threat of our time and that for the sake of future generations the […]

Tanzania: Zanzibar’s encroaching ocean means less fresh water

By Erick Kabendera12 June 2013 ZANZIBAR (IPS) – Khadija Komboani’s nearest well is filled with salt water thanks to the rising sea around Tanzania’s Indian Ocean island of Zanzibar. And until recently, the 36-year-old mother of 12 from Nungwi village in Unguja on the northernmost part of Zanzibar, spent most of her day walking to […]

Land degradation threatens food security

By MD. ASADULLAH KHAN8 June 2013 (The Daily Star) – With two centuries of an unprecedented population boom, likely to reach 9 billion by 2050, land degradation by human activities and climatic upheavals poses a threat to food security, especially in a land-scarce country like Bangladesh. Historically known, it took the human species about 150,000 […]

Peak Water, Peak Oil? Now, Peak Soil? – ‘It takes half a millennium to build two centimetres of living soil and only seconds to destroy it’

By Stephen Leahy31 May 2013 REYKJAVÍK, Iceland (IPS) – Soil is becoming endangered. This reality needs to be part of our collective awareness in order to feed nine billion people by 2050, say experts meeting here in Reykjavík. And a big part of reversing soil decline is carbon, the same element that is overheating the […]

Global majority faces water shortages ‘within two generations’ – 4.5 billion people already live within 50km of an impaired water resource – ‘These are self-inflicted wounds’

By Fiona Harvey, environment correspondent 24 May 2013 (The Guardian) – The majority of the 9 billion people on Earth will live with severe pressure on fresh water within the space of two generations as climate change, pollution and over-use of resources take their toll, 500 scientists have warned. The world’s water systems would soon […]

Rising seas in southern Caribbean offer dark preview of future amid climate change – ‘The sea will take this whole place down’

TELESCOPE, Grenada (AP) – The old coastal road in this fishing village at the eastern edge of Grenada sits under a couple of feet of murky saltwater, which regularly surges past a hastily-erected breakwater of truck tires and bundles of driftwood intended to hold back the Atlantic Ocean. For Desmond Augustin and other fishermen living […]

Photo gallery: Kiribati enters the end game against climate change

By Mike Bowers and Bernard Lagan for the Global Mail 16 April 2013 (guardian.co.uk) – The waves are slowly seeping over the islands of the Pacific nation, which is at the frontline of the climate change-induced rise in sea levels striking low-lying nations all over the world Kiribati enters the end game against climate change […]

Filipino super-typhoon an ominous warning of climate change impact – ‘The devastation was worse than anything I have ever seen’

By Simon Tisdall17 February 2013 (guardian.co.uk) – When super-typhoon Bopha struck without warning before dawn, flattening the walls of their home, Maria Amparo Jenobiagon, her two daughters and her grandchildren ran for their lives. The storm on 4 December was the worst ever to hit the southern Philippines: torrential rain turned New Bataan’s river into […]

Vanishing homeland of Kiribati leaves people with nowhere to go – ‘Climate change is the greatest moral challenge of the 21st century’

By Linda Uan12 February 2013 (WA Today) – On an average day in Kiribati we can look out across our calm and peaceful lagoons and see people fishing and going about their daily business and everything is at it has been for many generations. But this is deceptive. We now know that we are being […]

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