Data from more than 1,000 aquifers reveal widespread decline, but improvement in some places shows the trend can be reversed.
An investigation into nearly 1,700 aquifers across more than 40 countries found that groundwater levels in almost half have fallen since 2000. Only about 7 percent of the aquifers surveyed had groundwater levels that rose over that same time period.
The new study is one of the first to compile data from monitoring wells around the world to try and construct a global picture of groundwater levels in fine detail.
"When it comes to the impact on the climate, Dr Canadell says these fire emissions — though significant — are barely a blip on the radar compared with the decades of accumulated emissions caused by the fossil fuel industry."
Jan. 21, 2024
Just six days in to the northern hemisphere summer of 2023, the skyline in New York City was stained in a sepia smoke haze.
It was streaming from across the border, where, what became Canada's most widespread fires in history, were raging.
A severe drought that began last year has forced authorities to slash ship crossings by 36% in the Panama Canal, one of the world's most important trade routes.
The new cuts announced Wednesday by authorities in Panama are set to deal an even greater economic blow than previously expected.
Internal government memos show TC Energy lobbied for carveouts exempting methane and LNG plants from one of Canada’s key climate policies targeting the oil and gas industry
One of Canada’s largest pipeline operators lobbied the federal government to exclude two major sources of carbon pollution from its emissions cap for the oil and gas sector.
Essay by Kohei Saito, [This introdution by] A Socialist In Canada, Jan 19, 2024 (This essay by the Japanese scholar, researcher and author Kohei Saito was first published in Unherd on January 9, 2024. Saito has just published a new book: Slow Down: The degrowth manifesto (W&N, Orion Publishing Group).
The gas provider is being criticized for a lack of transparency and timely explanation about the stench Delta Mayor George Harvie said led to emergency services being flooded with calls
Tara Jean Stevens said the “apocalyptic” stench that blanketed Delta on Tuesday night was so heavy that her car and garage still smelled of rotten eggs Wednesday morning.
“I had a headache all night,” said Stevens, a radio host on Wave 98.3. “I never get headaches … it felt thick in the air, even though you couldn’t see it.”
Carola Rackete, who made her name defying Italy’s far right, is set to lead Die Linke party into European elections in June
She made her name as the captain of a ship that rescued stranded migrants from the Mediterranean. But now Carola Rackete is embarking on a new journey, focusing her activist sights on helping to save a crisis-ridden part of the German left.
