A new study indicates that air pollution in India is contributing to more than 500,000 premature deaths every year. According to the research, the ...
Conflict in Syria: The role of climate change and agricultural decline
by Smart City News on Wednesday, May 11, 2016 in All News, Food + Water, Resilience, Environment + Climate
While the conflict in Syria is primarily caused by ideological, political and religious differences, environmental issues may have contributed the country ...
South Africa builts desalination plants to boost water supply
While suffering from one of its worst droughts, South Africa has agreed to collaborate with Iran to build desalination plants along the nation’s ...
How a city on the Philippines prepares for water scarcity
by Smart City News on Tuesday, May 10, 2016 in All News, Food + Water, Resilience, Environment + Climate
Despite being surrounded with water, Zamboanga City is struggling with water scarcity. In order to prepare for future droughts, the city recently set up ...
Animation shows spiralling global temperature change
Ed Hawkins of the University of Reading created a convincing animation out of combined global temperature data sets from January 1850 to March 2016 – ...
Unending drought: California makes water-wasting bans permanent
Although the drought in California has become less severe in the last months, Governor Jerry Brown declared to make several water conservation efforts ...
Games prepare Ethiopian farmers for climate threats
by Smart City News on Monday, May 09, 2016 in All News, Education, Resilience, Environment + Climate
In an attempt to boost resilience among farmers in Ethiopia, members of the Red Cross and Red Crescent take a playful approach in combining maths and ...
Hi-tech tower might solve air pollution problems
With 2m deaths worldwide every year relating to it, air pollution is becoming a serious concern and big business. While governments mainly focus on ...
Erderwärmung könnte ganze Regionen unbewohnbar machen
Wissenschaftler des Max-Planck-Instituts für Chemie in Mainz warnen, dass die Erderwärmung weite Teile Nordafrikas und des Nahen Ostens bis Mitte des ...
World Bank: Global water shortages could damage economies
According to the World Bank, water shortages will damage the economies of the Middle East, central Asia, and Africa by 2050. Due to the growing demand for ...
