World Water Day 2026 highlights water and gender, showing how inequality impacts access, economies and resilience while ...

For decades, we have heard many warnings about a global water crisis. However, a new UN-supported report states that these previous warnings do not capture the extent of the problem. Instead, the ...

Across the planet, lakes that once anchored ecosystems and economies are shrinking into cracked mudflats and toxic dust bowls. From polar ponds to inland seas, their disappearance is not a distant ...

Water scarcity is often presented as an unavoidable consequence of arid climates, particularly across the MENA region and other parts of the Global South. This narrative, widely circulated in ...

A new UN report outlines how vanishing lakes, overdrawn aquifers, and rapidly melting glaciers are pushing billions toward acute water shortages and adding pressure to food systems worldwide. Stacey ...

Amid chronic groundwater depletion, water overallocation, land and soil degradation, deforestation, and pollution, all compounded by global heating, a UN report today declared the dawn of an era of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock The global water crisis has escalated to the point that almost three-quarters of the world lives in a ...

GENEVA– A whopping 2.1 billion people or one in every four people globally lack access to safely managed drinking water, according to a joint report by UN agencies WHO and the UNICEF on August 26.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Environmental degradation due to dryland salinity, causing trees to die and inducing serious hillslope gully and sheet erosion at ...