Global climate security atlas developed as tool to help prepare for the impacts of climate change

Irina Marinov, associate professor at the Department of Earth and Environmental Science, leads a research community focused on understanding global climate impacts, risks, and vulnerabilities to ... Read More

World Water Day 2020: Water and Climate Change... and Isotopes

These isotopes are highly sensitive indicators of climatic processes. The GNIP helps scientists to study the global water cycle and the origin, movement and history of water, and to validate climate ... Read More

Water Crises Threaten the World’s Ability to Eat, Studies Show

High food prices, meet the global water crisis. The world’s food supply is under threat because so much of what we eat is concentrated in so few countries, and many of those countries are ... Read More

New Partnership Aims to Help Countries Achieve a Water-Secure World for All

New challenges and new contexts require new responses. That’s why today, July 1 st 2017, the World Bank, together with its partners, is delighted to launch a new partnership for a water-secure world, ... Read More

Imminent risk of a global water crisis, warns the UN World Water - UNESCO

The report gives insight into the main trends concerning the state, use and management of freshwater and sanitation, based on work by Members and Partners of UN-Water. Launched in conjunction with ... Read More

Lack of Water Linked to 10 Percent of the Rise in Global Migration

As climate change accelerates a global water crisis, rainfall variability is expected to be one of the contributing forces in migration, according to a new World Bank report released today. The report ... Read More

The Panama Canal’s other conflict: Water security for the population ...

The Panama Canal is one of the most important waterways in the world, with about 7% of global trade passing through. It also relies heavily on rainfall. Without enough freshwater flowing in, the ... Read More