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The challenges we face as stewards of Earth are staggering and often unprecedented. Extreme weather events—many of them harbingers of a changing climate—are hammering communities around the world, leaving devastation that costs billions of dollars. Loss of the planet’s tree cover reached a new high in 2016. The global population is set to grow by at least 2 billion […]
It’s Not Just Cape Town: 4 Shrinking Reservoirs to Watch
By Charlie Iceland, Tianyi Luo, and Gennadii Donchyts Cape Town, South Africa has been in the news a lot lately. The region has suffered a devastating three-year drought, and the city’s reservoirs are close to running out of water. The city has so far avoided reaching “Day Zero,” when it would turn off taps and start rationing water for […]
Water Stress Threatens Nearly Half the World’s Thermal Power Plant Capacity
< Blog Water Stress Threatens Nearly Half the World’s Thermal Power Plant Capacity By Aaron Kressig, Logan Byers, Johannes Friedrich, Colin McCormick and Tianyi Luo Many people point to renewable energy as the greatest threat facing fossil fuel power plants. New WRI research finds that the real threat may be water. When we overlaid areas of current […]
