Environment

The United States of Drought

By Ramy Srour
As the planet heats up and larger populations demand larger water supplies, the United States will be left high and dry if it fails to address a worsening water shortage.

Conflicts Over Water Rise in Tanzania

By Kizito Makoye
Conflicts over water are increasing in the sprawling Pangani River Basin in northeastern Tanzania as farmers and herders jostle for dwindling water resources in the face of climate change.

Groups Target Food Waste to Eliminate Hunger

By Marina Lalovic
If all food loss and waste around the world could be recovered, half the world's population, or 3.5 billion people, could be fed. Yet people throw away a third of food produced globally, an issue that inspired the theme of these year's World Food Day, sustainable food systems for food security and nutrition.

Washington State Becomes Latest GMO Battleground

By Matthew Charles Cardinale
The northwestern state of Washington could become the first in the U.S. to require labeling of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) on foods and food packages, after a similar measure in California failed last year.

When Poverty Quietly Morphs into Catastrophe

By Miriam Gathigah and George Gao
Wambui Karunyu, 72, and her seven-year-old grandson are the only surviving members of their immediate family.  Karunyu’s husband and five children all succumbed to the hardships of living in the semi-arid area of lower Mukurweini district in central Kenya.

No Safe Havens in Increasingly Acid Oceans

By Stephen Leahy
Oil, gas and coal are contaminating the world's oceans from top to bottom, threatening the lives of more than 800 million people, a new study warns Tuesday.

Chevron Fights Amazon Pollution Verdict in U.S. Court

By Samuel Oakford
Two years after they were awarded 18 billion dollars by an Ecuadorian court for environmental damage caused by Chevron in the Amazonian rainforest, a group of indigenous villagers and their U.S. lawyer went on trial Tuesday in New York, accused by the oil company of bribery and racketeering.

Sicilian Town Opposes U.S. Transmitters

By Silvia Giannelli
Niscemi, with its 30,000 local residents and its white houses, is a typical southern Sicilian town. But it stands out not only for its ancient cork forest, but also for the Naval Radio Transmitter Facility located within the protected forest itself.

U.S. Science Reporters Becoming an Endangered Species

By Zofeen Ebrahim
The news for environmental journalism in the United States is grim and getting grimmer.

Climate Change a Mixed Blessing for Coconut Farmers

By Desmond Brown
Climbing up the coconut industry has been anything but easy for Rosamund Benn, who has dedicated the past 32 years of her life working on a 50-acre coconut farm in The Pomeroon, a farming region of Guyana.

Brazil in Reverse

By Fabíola Ortiz
In the last five years, Brazil has joined the ranks of the world’s big polluters, whose main source of greenhouse gases is the burning of fossil fuels.

Conserve Water or Perish, Warns U.N. Chief

By Thalif Deen
Just 17 years from now, nearly half the global population could be facing water scarcity, with demand outstripping supply by 40 percent.

Behind Haiti’s Hunger

By Correspondents
Haiti has been receiving food aid for half a century - over 1.5 million tonnes from the U.S. alone during the past two decades.

Argentina Blindly Exploiting Groundwater, Scientists Warn

By Marcela Valente

Half of Argentina is supplied with water by invisible underground aquifers, which are crucial in the country’s arid and semi-arid regions, experts say. But Tierramérica discovered that nobody – not even the government – has any accurate scientific data on these groundwater reserves.

Energy Hits New Rocks in Mongolia

By Michelle Tolson
Mongolia, 90 percent dependent on fuel imports from Russia and vulnerable to price hikes, is seeking to develop its oil shale deposits of at least 800 billion tons.

The Coming Plague

By Stephen Leahy
A climate plague affecting every living thing will likely start in 2020 in southern Indonesia, scientists warned Wednesday in the journal Nature. A few years later the plague will have spread throughout the world's tropical regions.

Building a Better World, One Block at a Time

By Stephen Leahy
One evening in the small village of Ashton Hayes in Cheshire, England, someone started a conversation about climate change and energy at the local pub. It was 2005. Two years later, residents had cut their carbon dioxide emissions and energy costs by 20 percent.

Chile’s Mining Industry Turns to Sunlight to Ease Energy Shortage

By Marianela Jarroud
The mining industry in the north of Chile, the world’s leading producer of copper, is trying to partially satisfy its insatiable appetite for energy with a renewable, ever-available source: the sun.

Risk Management Can Ease Poverty, World Bank Says

By Ramy Srour
Successful risk management can be a powerful tool for development, the World Bank said Monday in its annual World Development Report (WDR).

Treaty Poised to Cut Toxic Mercury Pollution

By Carey L. Biron
A new international convention opening for signatures this week will for the first time offer an agreed-upon roadmap by which to significantly decrease the global use of mercury while offering stronger safeguards for both human health and the environment.

In Trinidad, Sports Complex Targets a Key Watershed

By Peter Richards
Trinidad's Orange Grove Savannah sits at the foothills of the Northern Range, whose watersheds provide copious volumes of fresh water into the aquifers - natural underground water storage areas - lying below these green spaces.
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