Mexico City’s water supply crisis affects about 8.8 million residents in the city proper, but the working population of the metropolitan area is closer to 18 million. The city is sinking because of the depletion of ground water aquifers.
Tagged Mexico City, waterThere is no agreed definition of a climate change refugee, according to Future Floods of Refugees, a Norwegian Refugee Council report, but there is a long history of displacement due to environmental degradation. In his Guardian blog, editorialist George Monbiot and others have picked up on the planned movement of the population of the Carteret [...]
Tagged atoll, Carteret islands, migration, Papua New Guinea, PNG, refugees, sea-level riseMy advice to every architect and civil engineer: dikes and levees are going to be hot.
In its 11th hour, the Bush Administration has authorized a new US Arctic Policy (National Security Presidential Directive 66), which will serve as a continuing, broad policy guideline to government agencies until replaced. That is, it has [...]
Bryan and Cherry Alexander: Inglefield Bay Clouds, Greenland. With more photos from The Mail on Sunday, Online.
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