In a dilapidated warehouse in Rafah, Soha Abu Diab is living with her three young daughters and more than 20 other family members. They have…
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Women and girls suffer first when droughts hit poor and rural areas, says UN
Women and girls are the first to suffer when drought strikes poor and rural areas, and water strategies around the world must reflect this, the…
View More Women and girls suffer first when droughts hit poor and rural areas, says UNExtreme water stress faced by countries home to quarter of world population
Twenty-five countries that are home to a quarter of the world’s population are facing extreme water stress, according to new research. Data from the World…
View More Extreme water stress faced by countries home to quarter of world population‘Very precarious’: Europe faces growing water crisis as winter drought worsens
The scenes are rare enough in mid-summer; in early March, they are unprecedented. Lac de Montbel in south-west France is more than 80% empty, the…
View More ‘Very precarious’: Europe faces growing water crisis as winter drought worsens‘Grandmothers are our weather app’: new maps and local knowledge power Chad’s climate fightback
It’s a simple idea: where land and river boundaries are disputed, make a map. Putting it into practice, using the unwritten knowledge and oral histories…
View More ‘Grandmothers are our weather app’: new maps and local knowledge power Chad’s climate fightback‘We are afraid’: Erin Brockovich pollutant linked to global electric car boom
A Guardian investigation into nickel mining and the electric vehicle industry has found evidence that a source of drinking water close to one of Indonesia’s…
View More ‘We are afraid’: Erin Brockovich pollutant linked to global electric car boom‘Farmers are digging their own graves’: true cost of growing food in Spain’s arid south
A wetland without water is a melancholy sight. The fish are dead, the birds have flown and a lifeless silence hangs over the place. “Everything…
View More ‘Farmers are digging their own graves’: true cost of growing food in Spain’s arid south