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Into the Quiet and the Light: Water, Life, and Land Loss in South Louisiana by Virginia Hanusik | Columbia Books on Architecture and the City | $28 I had lived in New Orleans for five weeks when Hurricane Ida hit. I was lucky enough to evacuate to a friend’s house in Houston, where my wife and […]
What could be more awesome and larger than life when standing in the face of a gigantic wall of ice? In the winter, you can enter the blue ice cave. In the summer, a rushing creek pours out of the cave. No matter the season, this place offers an adventure. In the early summer, the […]
Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Latin America Brief. The highlights this week: Colombia hosts the United Nations biodiversity summit, Brazil says it will reject an invitation to the Belt and Road Initiative, and Mexico celebrates Día de Muertos. Sign up to receive Latin America Brief in your inbox every Friday. Sign up to receive Latin America Brief […]
NPR reports on the drying Central Asia water sources. The Aral Sea has been drying for the past 60 years, and if its source rivers dry up too, much of the region will become uninhabitable. A combination of satellite imagery, photographs, and maps help tell the story. Source link
‘That number is looking at a global number that we believe the developed economy countries should be contributing to the developing economy countries,’ says the Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment. Source link
Companies under the umbrella of billionaire Li Ka-shing agreed to acquire land-use rights for agricultural property in Australia that is three times the size of Hong Kong with a plan to store a million tonnes of carbon dioxide to offset their footprint. CK Asset Holdings and CK Hutchison Holdings are jointly entering the regenerative agriculture […]
The Spanish government has declared three days of mourning for the victims of devastating flash floods in the south and east of the country. The government minister responsible for territorial policy, Ángel Víctor Torres, made the announcement as Spanish authorities confirmed that 64 people have died after flash floods swept away cars, turned village streets […]
The big-ticket item at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) being held in Baku, Azerbaijan, in November this year will be the development of a new climate finance goal for funding to developing countries — the New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance (NCQG). However, weeks out from COP29, NCQG negotiations are in a […]
Scientists from UiT The Arctic University of Norway have raised concerns about Arctic sea-ice melt affecting global ocean circulation. The study shows that melting ice in the Arctic is sending large amounts of freshwater into the Nordic Seas, a key area for ocean heat transfer, which could lead to a drop in temperatures across northern […]
In 2020 international shipping saw itself faced with new fuel regulations for cargo ships pertaining to low sulfur fuels (IMO2020). This reduced the emission of sulfur dioxide aerosols from these ships across the globe by about 80% practically overnight and resulting in perhaps the biggest unintentional geoengineering event since last century. As detailed in a […]