Reporter William Wheeler talks with Haitians and aid workers about the fear of storms and the disastrous connection between cholera, charcoal, deforestation, and floods. By William Wheeler in Haiti This post is part of a special National Geographic news series ...
Ninety-five percent of Americans say water delivery is more important than access to energy sources and internet and cell phone service, according to a survey released last week by ITT, a $10.9-billion company with a $3.5-billion water engineering and infrastructure ...
Global water expert and National Geographic Fellow Sandra Postel outlines the world’s water challenges in a new book published this week by the Post Carbon Institute (PCI). “Our water problem turns out to be much more worrisome than our ...
Traces of eight illegal drugs have been detected in surface waters in Valencia, Spain, according to new research published last month in the journal Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. The study of wetland water from Valencia’s Natural Park of L’...
Can we avoid another disaster? Science journalists reporting on the Gulf talk about the fate of aquatic species after the Deepwater Horizon spill. By Tasha Eichenseher National Public Radio’s (NPR) <a href=”Talk of the Nation show was ...
The 20th annual World Water Week came to an end last Friday in Stockholm. Among the roughly 2,500 people there were leading water experts from the fields of engineering, biology, ecology, education, hydrology, politics, chemistry, and negotiation. Are they optimistic? 2010 Stockholm ...
Water shortages could mean trouble in our race to find enough clean energy to fuel the planet. By Tasha Eichenseher in Stockholm, Sweden This post is part of a special news series on global water issues. Over the next 20 to 30 ...
World Water Week, held every year for the last 20 in design-centric Stockholm, Sweden, is not without eye candy, or for that matter innovation. By Tasha Eichenseher in Stockholm, Sweden This post is part of a special news series on global ...
Next time the person sitting across the table from me jokes about my tendency to finish every last bite, I will be able to defend my gut reaction to not waste food. (After I’m finished chewing, of course.) Recent ...
Colin Chartres, director of the 25-year-old International Water Management Institute (IWMI), and co-author of the new book Out of Water: From Abundance to Scarcity and How to Solve the World’s Water Problems talks to National Geographic News about how ...
Local vegetable markets in Niger, Benin, Burkina Faso, and Senegal, could be flush with produce, despite drought conditions, thanks to a new agricultural system that combines efficient irrigation with new varieties of plants, according to scientists speaking today at the ...
Public hearings started today for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency‘s (EPA) proposed rule on how to dispose of coal ash–the toxic byproduct of burning coal. In December, a billion gallons of coal ash spilled from the Kingston ...
By Tasha Eichenseher in New Orleans Huge abandoned swaths of New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward feel like post-apocalyptic wilderness, overgrown grass littered with vacant homes and lonely concrete foundations. But springing up in a few sections are homes of Caribbean ...
By Tasha Eichenseher Crabbing, shrimping, and fishing along sections of the oil-tarnished Gulf Coast were re-opened last week. The media buzz is about whether the seafood coming out of the Gulf is safe to consume, but you’d never know ...
By Tasha Eichenseher Chet Chaisson, the son of a shrimper who grew up fishing and hunting in the coastal marshes of Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, is now the director of Port Fourchon–the launchpad for over half of the drilling activity ...