Climate change has many signals—rising sea levels, melting glaciers, stronger storms—but the first and most immediate sign for most people on the planet is water. Not too much of it. Not too little.

Across the globe, water scarcity is no longer a distant concern—it’s a present and growing crisis. Today, more than 2.3 billion people live in regions facing water stress, and the forces driving that ...

Europe is planning to at least triple its data center capacity as part of a push to become a world-class AI hub. It has sparked concern about an often overlooked but profound climate risk: water ...

Farmers have an old saying: “Pray for rain, but keep the plow in the ground.” For generations, the people who feed this country have kept their faith while adapting to challenges with ingenuity and ...

Peconic, N.Y.: Al Krupski, a fourth generation farmer and owner of Krupski Farms in Peconic, New York, holds dry soil that he describes as "powder" in one of his pumpkin fields, on Nov. 19, 2024. Long ...

Water scarcity might seem like a distant problem in a world where three-quarters of the planet's surface is water. Yet this precious resource increasingly finds itself at the center of humanity's most ...

Water scarcity is one of the most pressing development challenges of our time. Today, 2.4 billion people live in water-stressed countries. Many are smallholder farmers who already struggle to meet ...

As water-intensive data centres expand worldwide, their impact on sanitation, inequality and disease is emerging as a serious ...

In Chamba and Kangra districts alone, nearly 30% of the 1,550 functional water schemes have been hit, due to which the Jal ...