Tag: freshwater
Melting glaciers threaten food and water supply for 2 billion people
Rapid glacier melt threatens global water security, agriculture, and climate stability, putting billions at risk, warns the United Nations.
Global freshwater demand will exceed supply 40% by 2030, experts warn
“The scientific evidence is that we have a water crisis. We are misusing water, polluting water, and changing the whole global hydrological cycle, through what we are doing to the climate. It’s a triple crisis.”
Humanity’s challenge of the century: Conserving Earth’s freshwater systems
The challenge from here on is to avoid water wars while preemptively, cooperatively and aggressively addressing a growing global population’s water security. It can be done, but we must do it now.
Our freshwater emergency is worse than you think
Blue states can take the lead on protecting water where it counts most: at the source. They can articulate an urgently needed national water vision.
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Trump boat bombings draw murder accusations from Amnesty and lawmakers
A widening human rights crisis emerges as new disclosures reveal orders to kill shipwrecked survivors.
The ‘perfect’ Equal Opportunity Oppressor – Don the Con pulls off the impossible: ‘grievances...
Right or left, east or west, small-town/rural or city dwellers, blue collar or middle-class, who knows anyone (but the affluent) not paying through the teeth for the insufferable Trump Clown Show?
Supreme Court takes up Trump attack on birthright citizenship
A clash over the 14th amendment heads to the justices with consequences for millions of families.
The Trump Corollary
U.S. Imperialism in Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine to Maduro.
Clinton blames young people and social media for opposition to Gaza genocide
A speech at a far right Israeli publication’s summit sparks criticism over claims that youth are misinformed rather than responding to documented atrocities.