Heat Pushes Rhine Toward 36-Year Low in Risk to Energy Supplies July 29, 2026 By Eamon Akil Farhat The Rhine River’s water levels risk dropping to an unprecedented low as heat waves grip Europe, creating a bottleneck for...
Record-Low Danube Water Levels Leave Boats Beached, Reveal Decades-Old Shipwrecks July 27, 2026 Dozens of boats in a marina in Serbia’s northern city of Novi Sad floated in a green slurry — all...
Almost All of World’s Children Exposed to Climate Hazards, UN Agency Says June 16, 2026 Almost all of the world’s children are exposed to at least one climate hazard, with as many as 1.8 billion...
Austria Races to Secure Power Supplies as ‘Peak Water’ Looms April 14, 2026 By Jonathan Tirone and Marton Eder Austria’s economic model has long been anchored in Alpine water flowing through turbines to generate power for homes and businesses,...
Water ‘Bankruptcy’ Era Has Begun for Billions, Scientists Say January 22, 2026 By Danielle Bochove A new era has begun of “global water bankruptcy,” with humans depleting freshwater systems to the point they can’t recover,...
Damaging Megadroughts Are Spreading Around the World January 17, 2025 By Kendra Pierre-Louis Severe drought conditions have helped fuel the Los Angeles wildfires. But a new study, released Thursday in the journal Nature...
World’s Rivers Faced Driest Year in 30 Years in 2023: UN Weather Agency October 10, 2024 By Jamey Keaten The U.N. weather agency is reporting that 2023 was the driest year in more than three decades for the world’s...
River Level at Amazon Rainforest Port Hits 122-Year Low Amid Drought October 7, 2024 By Bruno Kelly and Jake Spring The river port in the Amazon rainforest’s largest city of Manaus on Friday hit its lowest level since 1902, as...
Thousands of Fires Are Burning in the Drought-Wracked Amazon September 23, 2024 By Barbara Nascimento, Eric Roston and Simone Iglesias Much of Brazil is burning as tens of thousands of fires rage around the country, half of them in the...
World’s Workers Increasingly at Risk as Climate Changes: Int’l Labour Organization April 22, 2024 More than 70% of the global workforce is exposed to risks linked to climate change that cause hundreds of thousands...