People walk by a formerly sunken boat standing upright into the air with its stern buried in the mud along the shoreline of Lake Mead at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Friday, January 27, 2023, near Boulder City, Nevada. A Native American tribe in Arizona has reached a deal with the US government not to use some of its Colorado River water rights in return for $150 million and funding for a pipeline project
RICH elites are overconsuming water for their own personal leisure and leaving poorer people without basic access in cities across the world, research has found.
The international team of researchers from Britain, Sweden and the Netherlands focused their study on Cape Town, South Africa, but found similar issues in 80 cities worldwide, including London.
It found that social inequalities are exacerbating urban water crises more than climate change or population growth, as the richest people use water for swimming pools, gardens and washing cars when others lack basic means.
The future does not have to be climate chaos and social breakdown. MARC VANDEPITTE looks at the alternatives offered by the Global Justice Report, co-authored by Thomas Piketty
Extreme heat is now one of the defining public health challenges of a warming world, explains Prof IAN WILLIAMS
Coal-fired stoves in traditional homes are the primary source of extreme levels of air pollution in over-crowded Ulaanbaatar. As more people become climate-displaced, the situation is likely to worsen, write SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results