Water as a ZNet topic refers to content assessing current water trends and to strategy and vision bearing on water availability, quality, and production in the future.
āā¦sensitivity toward destructiveness-cruelty is rapidly diminishing, and necrophilia, the attraction to what is dead, decaying, lifeless, and purely mechanical, is increasing throughout…
Before he could make sense of what happened, Ali Oday Yassin felt the ground beneath him tremble. Yassin owns a roadside rest…
Chris Jones is a fisherman, not a farmer. And, until 2023, he directed Iowaās network of stream pollution monitors for the University…
The defining signature of the past 6,000 years of human civilization is the domestication of the hydrosphereācapturing, damming, canalizing, reorienting, propertizing, privatizing,…
The March 30 announcement arrived with the bluntness that has become a hallmark of the Trump administrationās environmental retreat: The U.S. Army…
Forgotten Water: How Cities Desertify Their Own Territories In modern cities, a silent paradox repeats itself: in countries affected by drought, rainwater…
Across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), water is far more than a resource. It is memory, territory, survival, identity, and…
Since the 1959 Cuban Revolution, the U.S. government has sought to foment regime change in Cuba. In 1961, the C.I.A. orchestrated the…
In September 2024, intermittent rainfall plunged northern Algerian Sahara into an almost apocalyptic atmosphere. In just forty-eight hours, more rain fell than…
Majdi Aslan, 54, was driving a truck for the UNās World Health Organization (WHO) on April 6 when the Israeli army killed…
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