Water scarcity occurs when a region’s demand for water exceeds its available supply. This challenge is not limited to arid countries—it affects regions across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and even ...

Climate change has many signals—rising sea levels, melting glaciers, stronger storms—but the first and most immediate sign for most people on the planet is water. Not too much of it. Not too little.

Water scarcity might seem like a distant problem in a world where three-quarters of the planet's surface is water. Yet this precious resource increasingly finds itself at the center of humanity's most ...

Water is life they say; it is certainly life for plants and animals, too, but when humans do not have enough of it for their livelihoods, the rest of the ecosystem suffers. Others think of water as ...

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Peconic, N.Y.: Al Krupski, a fourth generation farmer and owner of Krupski Farms in Peconic, New York, holds dry soil that he describes as "powder" in one of his pumpkin fields, on Nov. 19, 2024. Long ...

Securing the world's water supply is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Research at Stockholm University is now presenting an alternative method for quantifying the global risk of water ...

Climate change could leave 74% of the world’s drought-prone regions at high risk of severe and prolonged droughts by the end of the century, new research suggests. Reading time 3 minutes Earth’s ...

The world has a worsening water crisis, and half of all food production will be at risk of failure by the middle of this century. That’s the worrying message from a major international study released ...