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We can't engineer our way out of the water crisis in the Southwest US

We can't engineer our way out of the water crisis in the Southwest US

1 March 2023

Ever since Arizona was first colonised, politicians and entrepeneurs have sold residents the idea that human ingenuity can craft a solution to water shortfalls. It can't, argues Natalie Koch


HH6DW5 Pyramid of the Magician in Uxmal, Yucatan, Mexico

The Earth Transformed review: The untold history of humans and climate

1 March 2023

Teasing apart the connection between humans and climate is the business of an ambitious book by Peter Frankopan, which is heavy on resources but light on insights


NAKURU, RIFT VALLEY, KENYA - 2021/10/17: A view of a submerged Roberts Camp after the unprecedented rise of water levels in Lake Baringo. The flooding situation in Rift Valley lakes exacerbated by climate change has led to displacement of thousands of people from their homes and work. There are growing calls for world leaders to put more effort in addressing the effects of climate change. Communities living near the catchment areas in the global south are the most affected. (Photo by James Wakibia/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Lake levels are rising across the world and climate change is to blame

28 February 2023

Water levels at lakes in East Africa are rising alarmingly fast, flooding homes and farmland and displacing people. It is an unanticipated consequence of global warming – and it is being repeated around the globe


Against a shimmery gray background, roughly a dozen illustrated translucent balls and sticks are arranged in the formation of the 3D molecular structure of perfluorobutanoic acid

US military to test destroying toxic PFAS with superheated water

27 February 2023

A system that breaks down so-called forever chemicals with extreme heat and pressure will be tested at two US Air Force bases and a Navy base


Dead fish in the river Oder near Schwedt, Germany, in August 2022

Huge ecological disaster in river Oder last year could repeat in 2023

27 February 2023

An algal bloom caused mass deaths of fish and other animals in the river Oder in Germany and Poland in 2022, and scientists warn there is a high risk of a second catastrophe


Hulhumale, a new island in the Maldives

Artificial urban islands could supply homes in Maldives as waters rise

21 February 2023

High-rise cities on two or three reclaimed islands up to 6 metres above sea level could secure the long-term future of the Maldives in the face of climate change


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