Competing visions for a famed river in a Midwest hotspot—Part 2

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan—After dropping through downtown, the Grand River flattens out. There, the state is considering a dredging project to open the river to larger boats and travel between Grand Rapids and Grand Haven, a city at the river's mouth where it empties into Lake Michigan.

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‘We can’t waste a drop.’ India is running out of water

Water crises are unfolding all across India, a product of population growth, modernization, climate change, mismanagement and the breakdown of traditional systems of distributing resources.

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Drought and unrest push residents out of Central America’s dry corridor

Residents of Central America’s Dry Corridor are at a crossroads: stay in the drought-stricken region, where food insecurity and violence are rampant, or migrate.

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Opinion: Climate change will boost refugee migration, political crisis

As climate change intensifies and catastrophe becomes normal, the upheaval will create mass migrations of refugees. What will America’s role be in welcoming them and helping protect them from harm?

www.sacbee.com

The population bust

Zachary Karabell reviews two new books on population decline, arguing that the world is headed toward a population bust that could destroy capitalism as we know it.

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Competing visions for a famed river in a Midwest hotspot—Part 1

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan—A bike ride along the Grand River downtown is a breeze—heading downstream it's all downhill.

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Two mass killings a world apart share a common theme: ‘Ecofascism’

Environmental groups denounce racists who cloak themselves in green.

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In search of consensus on climate-conflict links

What do we (think we) know about the links between climate change and armed conflict? Early attempts to theorize what climate-related conflict might look like were exceptionally successful in [...]

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The next urban water crisis? Inadequate data clouds the forecast

What is the next center of population and commerce to be roiled by a severely constricted water supply?

www.circleofblue.org

Why an heiress spent her fortune trying to keep immigrants out

Newly unearthed documents reveal how an environmental-minded socialite became an ardent nativist whose money helped sow the seeds of the Trump anti-immigration agenda.

www.nytimes.com

Joe Sandler Clarke: Does overpopulation cause climate change?

Blaming the climate crisis on overpopulation means blaming the most marginalized for a problem caused by the rich.

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Carl Safina: The new threat to endangered species? The Trump administration

New rules will weaken the landmark law intended to save plants and animals on the brink.

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Extreme climate change has reached the United States: Here are America’s fastest-warming places

More than a century of temperature data shows much of the U.S. Northeast is in the grip of extreme warming, with winter heating up more quickly than other seasons.

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Canal trash bigger problem in SW Idaho canals as population grows

More yard waste, trash and debris are showing up in southwestern Idaho canals and ditches as the population in the region grows, irrigation entities report.

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India's Ganges River is drying up

At a nature sanctuary on the Ganges, both dolphins and humans are in trouble.

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Editorial: In the fight to save the planet, its defenders are being killed

Those who resist powerful industries that savage ecosystems and drive people off their land face death and fear.

www.nytimes.com

9 people on the ethics of having kids in an era of climate crisis

Readers share heartbreaking and searingly honest stories about their decision whether or not to have children because of climate concerns.

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Crispr can help solve our looming food crisis—here's how

There's not enough land to feed everyone on Earth without ruining the climate, a new IPCC report shows. Gene-edited crops could help reduce agriculture's footprint.

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US loses ‘football field’ worth of nature every 30 seconds

A new report from the Center for American Progress reveals that more than 24 million acres of nature have been lost from the contiguous United States between 2001 and 2017 due to human development; the equivalent of one football field every 30 seconds.

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The rural/urban divide widens as climate and economic policy remain at Oregon’s forefront

The debate over a sweeping environmental policy seemed to deepen perceptions that there are two Oregons — major metropolitan areas with dominating populations, and rural areas ranging from fisheries-based coastal towns to harvest-dependent communities in the east.

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Climate change threatens the world’s food supply, United Nations warns

The world's land is being exploited at an “unprecedented” rate, a United Nations report on climate change warns, putting pressure on food production and amplifying the risk of mass migration.

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Opinion: Tyson sees the future … and it ain't only about livestock

The nation's top meat producer Tyson Foods has gazed into the crystal ball and thinks it's coming up meat substitutes.

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Climate change intensifies homelessness: CAP report

It’s time to stop treating the housing crisis and the climate crisis as two separate issues—and start designing solutions for both at once.

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Extreme water stress affects a quarter of the world's population, say experts

A quarter of the world's population across 17 countries are living in regions of extremely high water stress, a measure of the level of competition over water resources, a new report reveals.

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Africa's booming cities face a severe toilet crisis

As Africa faces a population boom unmatched anywhere in the world, millions of people are moving to fast-growing cities while decades-old public facilities crumble under the pressure.

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Fort Collins greenhouse gas emissions likely increased in 2018

Population growth, natural gas use in extreme weather year and SUVs appear to be key culprits of increased greenhouse gas emissions in 2018.

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How mosquitoes helped shape the course of human history

Historian and author Timothy Winegard discusses key moments when mosquito-borne diseases caused militaries to crumble, great leaders to fall ill, and populations to be left vulnerable to invasion.

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White Nationalists discover the environment

Instead of denying threats to the planet, far-right propagandists seize on them as another means of sowing racial panic.

www.theatlantic.com

The El Paso manifesto: Where racism and eco-facism meet

It proposed genocide as a pathway to ecological sustainability.

www.motherjones.com

India's Chennai rapid growth threatened by water shortages

In Chennai, a coastal city of about 10 million and the capital of Tamil Nadu state, rapid development and rampant construction have overtaxed a once-abundant natural water supply.

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We must change food production to save the world, says leaked report

A leaked draft of a report on climate change and land use states that it will be impossible to keep global temperatures at safe levels unless there is also a transformation in the way the world produces food and manages land.

We’ve worried about overpopulation for centuries. And we’ve always been wrong.

Competing visions for a famed river in a Midwest hotspot—Part 2

Get all this population news in your inbox, free every Wednesday

‘We can’t waste a drop.’ India is running out of water

Drought and unrest push residents out of Central America’s dry corridor

Opinion: Climate change will boost refugee migration, political crisis

The population bust

Competing visions for a famed river in a Midwest hotspot—Part 1

Two mass killings a world apart share a common theme: ‘Ecofascism’

In search of consensus on climate-conflict links

The next urban water crisis? Inadequate data clouds the forecast

Why an heiress spent her fortune trying to keep immigrants out

Joe Sandler Clarke: Does overpopulation cause climate change?

Carl Safina: The new threat to endangered species? The Trump administration

Extreme climate change has reached the United States: Here are America’s fastest-warming places

Canal trash bigger problem in SW Idaho canals as population grows

India's Ganges River is drying up

Samuel Myers: Climate change is sapping nutrients from our food — and it could become a global crisis

Editorial: In the fight to save the planet, its defenders are being killed

9 people on the ethics of having kids in an era of climate crisis

Crispr can help solve our looming food crisis—here's how

US loses ‘football field’ worth of nature every 30 seconds

The rural/urban divide widens as climate and economic policy remain at Oregon’s forefront

I want to be a parent, but how can I when things seem so awful?

Climate change threatens the world’s food supply, United Nations warns

Opinion: Tyson sees the future … and it ain't only about livestock

Climate change intensifies homelessness: CAP report

Extreme water stress affects a quarter of the world's population, say experts

Africa's booming cities face a severe toilet crisis

Fort Collins greenhouse gas emissions likely increased in 2018

How mosquitoes helped shape the course of human history

White Nationalists discover the environment

The El Paso manifesto: Where racism and eco-facism meet

India's Chennai rapid growth threatened by water shortages

We must change food production to save the world, says leaked report