A list of news and blog items we stumbled upon in the past week… New Data Predicts Fiercer Floods In Brahmaputra, Indus (IndiaSpend.com) – Discusses a recent paper from Nature produced by ICIMOD and Utrecht University researchers. Parliamentary Panel shocked over absence of Flood Forecasting sites of CWC (The Economic Times) Is this an example […]
A list of news and blog items we stumbled upon in the past week… The answer on human-caused climate change is in (The Sacromento Bee) When you ask the right questions, the answer isn’t surprising. Here, Peter Gleick discusses this in the context of the ongoing California (U.S.) drought. What did the Romans ever do […]
A list of news and blog items we stumbled upon in the past week… Transforming lion killers into ‘Lion Guardians’ (CNN) This article highlights an approach for species conservation that acknowledges the interests, values and culture of communities impacted by predators to proactively protect and support both human communities and lions — an example of […]
A list of news and blog items we stumbled upon in the past week… This Atlantic article (“The Island Nation that Bought a Backup Property”) points out that reefs may rise with the seas and that waves will continue to erode reefs and create new land. There is a link to a journal article (Historical area […]
The World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Risk 2014 Report ranks water crises as the third greatest global economic risk, just after fiscal crises in key economies and employment rate challenges; and water related risks of extreme weather events (#6) and food crises (#8) rank in the top ten. However, Lloyd’s Risk Index (LRI) ranks water scarcity […]
A list of news and blog items we stumbled upon in the past week … Consensus gap in climate change science and perception (Why we need to talk about the scientific consensus on climate change, The Guardian) Urban Ebola is an emergent phenomenon: We have not matched the species-level threat with the requisite complexity in levels of […]
