February 22, 2023 High School and University Students to Compete for $20,000 in Prizes in Water Innovation Challenge WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Global water technology company Xylem (NYSE:XYL) is calling on students worldwide to join its mission of solving water...
Water and Sanitation. Although 95% of water-scarce cities can address the water crisis via improvement of water-use efficiency, seawater desalination, groundwater exploitation, reservoir construction, interbasin water transfer, or virtual water trade (Supplementary Table5), these measures will not only...
4 May 2023| Energy transition, Europe, Finance & Insurance, Global The global energy crisis has led to a demand for larger offshore wind turbines. But rising insurance costs from mechanical breakdowns may jeopardise the sector, warns underwriter. ...
The world faces some of “the most dangerous” risks in decades in 2023, according to areportpublished this week by the Eurasia Group, a political risk consultancy. “A small group of individuals has amassed an extraordinary amount of power, making decisions of profound geopolitical consequence wi...
the international community must respond to major challenges such as the climate crisis, energy crisis, water crisis, and food crisis with greater urgency and faster speed. In this situation, the geopolitical situation remains tense, the...
Between May and October 2023, 15.3 million Afghanis were estimated to face severe acute food insecurity. Yemen High food and fuel prices, together with floods and protracted conflict, have further aggravated food insecurity in Yemen, where 53% of the population were classified as in a crisis ...
Climate change and urbanization can increase pressures on groundwater resources, but little is known about how groundwater quality will change. Here, we use a global synthesis (n = 9,404) to reveal the drivers of dissolved organic carbon (DOC), which is an important component of water ...
European-headquartered consulting majors sustain healthy growth rates buoyed by environment, energy and water sectors, holding sustainability in focus for acquisitions and strategy. Business Arcadis releases ambitious new three-year strategy 22 November 2023 | Business, Europe, Global, Strategy, UK ...
Noting that the global mean temperature this June was 1.47 degrees Celsius above the 1850-1900 average, the organization said 2023 is "now likely to become a new record warm year (81 percent chance)." A man cleans his sickle in a puddle on the dry bed of Botok water reservoir in Sragen...
According to FAO, the number of people who are acutely food insecure has more than doubled, from 135 million people before the COVID-19 pandemic to 345 million people in 2023. The current global food and nutrition crisis is the largest in modern human history and is aggravated by the effec...