Water

Salt Scourge: The Dual Threat of Warming and Rising Salinity

Yale Environment 360: The Mekong Delta is under a chemical threat arguably more deadly for the long term than the Agent Orange deployed across it during the Vietnam War half a century ago. By the middle of this century, it could be…

Tigray in Ethiopia was an environmental success story – but the war is undoing decades of regreening

The Conversation: An ongoing war between the Ethiopian government and its allies against Tigray, one of its northern states, has led to one of the world’s biggest humanitarian crises. We…

Oceans Aren’t Just Warming—Their Soundscapes Are Transforming

Wired: Wander into nature and give a good shout, and only nearby birds, frogs, and squirrels will hear you. Although sensing noise is a critical survival strategy for land animals, it’s a somewhat limited warning system, as sounds—save for something…

Why Did Two Antarctic Ice Shelves Fail? Scientists Say They Now Know.

New York Times: The rapid collapses of two ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula over the last quarter-century were most likely triggered by the arrival of huge plumes of warm, moisture-laden air that created extreme conditions and destabilized the ice, researchers said…