Behind the wars, drought

Climate change is the most destabilizing force in today’s world

Friedman’s like a broken watch — right twice a day — and this is one of his moments. He mentions the drought that underlies the war in Syria, and another…

Killing The Colorado

Deep beneath the bleached-out, dusty surface of the drought-stricken West is a stash of water sequestered between layers of rock and sometimes built up over centuries.

Officials in the Colorado River basin states have long treated this liquid treasure as a type of…

How hard is it to hear parched Maharashtra crying for help?

The image of women and children traveling on foot through miles of arid land in search of water is an image that has in the past been beamed to us from African countries. Today, one does not need to wait for images from…

Expert builders can provide flood mitigation Monmouthshire

Have you ever seen a video of the tsunamis that hit Japan a few years ago? Or perhaps you would have seen the footage of the Indian Ocean tsunami that destroyed lives and properties across South and South-East Asia? The sight is bone chilling — huge waves hitting the…