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  Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (AFP) Mar 21, 2025 Brazil is home to 12 percent of Earth's freshwater reserves, much of it in the Amazon, but is losing natural surface water as climate change and land conversion from forest to farming take their toll, a report said Friday. The country lost 400,000 hectares of aquatic surface from 2023 to last year, according to the latest figures from the MapBiomas monitoring platform - an area roughly the size of the US state of Rhode Island. In the past 16 years, only 2022 showed an increase, and since 1985, ... read more |
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US refuses water request for Mexico in new battlelineWashington (AFP) Mar 20, 2025 The United States said Thursday it refused a request from Mexico for water due to shortfalls in sharing by its southern neighbor, as President Donald Trump ramps up a battle on another front. ... more  
Chinese tariffs on Canadian agricultural products kick inBeijing (AFP) Mar 20, 2025 Chinese tariffs on Canadian products including rapeseed oil and pork come into effect Thursday, with an industry lobby warning the new levies will have a "devastating impact" on farmers. ... more 
In poor areas of Peru's capital, running water is a dreamLima (AFP) Mar 20, 2025 In the bone-dry hills overlooking Lima, the luxury of running water is just a dream for thousands of Peruvians who get theirs delivered by tanker truck. ... more 
Canada canola farmers squeezed by trade wars on two frontsMontreal (AFP) Mar 20, 2025 To sow or not to sow? Canola farmers in Canada's vast western Prairies region have found themselves in the crossfire of trade wars with both the United States and China. ... more |
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Planetary Water Limits Pose Challenge to Geological Resource ProductionTokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 14, 2025 The extraction and processing of geological resources, including critical metals and minerals essential for renewable energy and energy storage technologies, require substantial amounts of energy an ... more |
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NASA-ISRO Satellite to Track Crops from Sowing to HarvestLos Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 13, 2025 The NISAR satellite, a collaborative effort between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), is set to revolutionize agricultural monitoring by providing high-resolution data on crop ... more  
Spain to face increasingly 'severe' droughts: reportMadrid (AFP) Mar 13, 2025 Spain, which is nearing the end of a years-long drought, can expect such dry spells to become increasingly "frequent and severe" due to global warming, according to a scientific report published Thursday. ... more 
On the Mongolian steppe, climate change pushes herders to the brinkKharkhorin, Mongolia (AFP) Mar 13, 2025 Over a year after a devastating winter wiped out virtually his entire sheep flock, herder Zandan Lkhamsuren is still reckoning with the damage wrought by Mongolia's increasingly erratic extreme weather. ... more 
Lake Geneva's fish threatened by warming waters: expertsThonon-Les-Bains, France (AFP) Mar 12, 2025 Fish in Lake Geneva - Western Europe's largest lake - are under threat as its waters warm and become increasingly stagnant. ... more |
FARMing with Data OpenET Introduces FARMS Tool to Aid Water ManagementLos Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 11, 2025 A collaborative effort supported by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is enhancing the ability of farmers and ranchers to manage their water resources effectively. The initiative, led by Op ... more  Available on Amazon Books |
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Spain near end of four-year drought: weather agency Madrid (AFP) Mar 11, 2025 A drought that has parched fields and prompted water restrictions in Spain since 2021 could be over soon thanks to recent abundant rainfall, national weather agency AEMET said on Tuesday. ... more 
Creditors appeal 3 bn lifeline for UK's top water supplierLondon (AFP) Mar 11, 2025 An emergency loan recently granted to indebted Thames Water, Britain's biggest supplier of the commodity, was appealed in court Tuesday by creditors displeased at the terms of the package. ... more 
Attack on Iran nuclear plant would leave Gulf without water, Qatar PM warnsDubai (AFP) Mar 8, 2025 Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani has warned that an attack on Iran's Gulf coast nuclear facilities would leave countries across the region without water. ... more
China says to slap fresh tariffs on Canadian farm, food productsBeijing (AFP) Mar 8, 2025 China said Saturday it would slap tariffs on Canadian products including rapeseed oil and pork, after a Beijing probe into levies imposed by Ottawa on Chinese goods last year. ... more |
Peru farmer confident ahead of German court battle with energy giantLima (AFP) Mar 6, 2025 A Peruvian farmer suing a German energy giant in a "David and Goliath" battle over climate change damage, says he has "full confidence" in the legal process in Germany. ... more 
In El Salvador, a river without fish feeds fear of miningSanta Rosa De Lima, El Salvador (AFP) Mar 6, 2025 El Salvador's San Sebastian river has no fish. The runoff from a gold mine upstream, already shuttered two decades ago, has long killed them all. ... more  
Amazon tree loss may worsen both floods and droughts: studyParis (AFP) Mar 5, 2025 Deforestation in the Amazon causes more rain in the wet season and less rain in the dry season, according to new research published Wednesday underscoring the rainforest's "pivotal" role in regulating local and global climate. ... more
Indonesia seeds clouds to stem rainfall after capital floodsJakarta (AFP) Mar 5, 2025 Indonesian authorities have started to seed clouds to stem heavy rainfall that caused flooding around capital Jakarta, officials said, after one person died and thousands more were displaced. ... more |
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China says to impose fresh tariffs on US agricultural importsBeijing (AFP) Mar 4, 2025 China said Tuesday it would slap fresh tariffs on a range of agricultural imports from the United States as of next week, in retaliation against a hike in levies by Washington. ... more 
Plan B: Pakistan beekeepers widen pursuit of flowersSargodha, Pakistan (AFP) Mar 4, 2025 Under a dry, smoggy sky, a beekeeper in Pakistan's Punjab province carefully loads boxes filled with tens of thousands of bees onto the back of a truck. ... more
Swedish police open 'sabotage' probe over Gotland water supply damageStockholm (AFP) Mar 3, 2025 Swedish police said Monday they had opened an investigation into suspected sabotage after power cables to a pump supplying the Baltic Sea island of Gotland with water were intentionally disconnected. ... more 
Harnessing Fog for Water Supply in the World's Driest RegionsParis, France (SPX) Mar 01, 2025 Chile's Atacama Desert, one of the driest places on Earth, receives less than 1 mm of rainfall annually. Water supplies in the region largely depend on underground reservoirs that were last replenis ... more |
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Delhi bans old cars from refuelling to help tackle city's pollutionNew Delhi (AFP) Mar 1, 2025 Cars more than 15 years old will soon be barred from refuelling in New Delhi, the city's government said Saturday, as part of measures to reduce the Indian capital's hazardous pollution levels. ... more |
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Burn land or plant trees? Bolivian farmers weigh their optionsSanta Cruz, Bolivia (AFP) Mar 1, 2025 Less than a year after the worst wildfires in Bolivia's history, farmers face a choice: continue starting blazes to clear land for agriculture, or plant trees to mitigate worsening droughts. ... more 
Vietnam drags feet over 'urgent' pollution problemHanoi (AFP) Mar 1, 2025 Toxic smoke billows from a burning mound of plastic bags and leaves on Le Thi Huyen's farm in Hanoi, a city battling an alarming air pollution surge that the communist government appears in no hurry to fix. ... more 
Stuck in eternal drought, UAE turns to AI to make it rainAbu Dhabi (AFP) Feb 25, 2025 In the marbled halls of a luxury hotel, leading experts are discussing a new approach to an age-old problem: how to make it rain in the UAE, the wealthy Gulf state that lies in one of the world's biggest deserts. ... more 
Hong Kong firm makes bid for Thames Water: reportLondon (AFP) Feb 21, 2025 A Hong Kong company has submitted an initial GBP7-billion ($8.8 billion) bid for a majority stake in Thames Water, a heavily indebted UK water supplier, the Financial Times said Friday. ... more |
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