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The UN has warned that terms like "water crisis" no longer cut it, and that we are now in a post-crisis era.

Amid chronic groundwater depletion, water overallocation, land and soil degradation, deforestation, and pollution, all ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Last week the news broke that Adam Yauch, aka ...

GENEVA– A whopping 2.1 billion people or one in every four people globally lack access to safely managed drinking water, according to a joint report by UN agencies WHO and the UNICEF on August 26.

For over two decades, satellites have quietly documented a major crisis unfolding beneath our feet: Earth's continents are drying out at unprecedented rates. Fueled by climate change, groundwater ...

The documentation of the water crisis on the planet was conducted by satellites for decades, which noted a disastrous trend of climate change. They captured regions drying out at unprecedented rates ...

For decades, the world has been warned of a looming water crisis. A landmark report released today at the United Nations Headquarters argues that the time for "crisis management" has passed. The ...