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28 stories for“water security”
Gulf foreign ministers used a July 28 consultation to focus on practical understandings, de-escalation and the safe flow of ships through Hormuz.
Jul 29, 2026
Merz, Frederiksen, Costa and Kallas went to Rovaniemi to talk icebreakers, satellites and the Northern Sea Route. Then a drone struck a Kyiv to Warsaw locomotive minutes after Boris Johnson's train had passed. Berlin called it a calculated escalation.
Sep 15, 2026
Mohsen Rezaei says any ship entering a zone that starts at the American blockade line will be put on an Iranian sanctions list. The same day Aramco's Jizan refinery took a second strike in a month, Brent passed 97 dollars, and flydubai cut its schedule.
Sep 8, 2026
Solar systems are increasingly keeping hospitals, schools, water networks and street lighting operating where centralized energy supply is expensive or unreliable.
Aug 3, 2026
A report from Systemiq and three mountain institutes says the range that feeds the Indus, Ganges and Brahmaputra will reach peak water by mid-century. Nearly 200 glacial lakes in India are high risk. Last month a glacier collapse killed at least 1,300.
Sep 15, 2026
WMO forecasts point to a rapidly strengthening El Niño, raising the odds of disruptive heat, drought and heavy rain. Preparedness now can reduce damage later.
Jul 31, 2026
The names of 2,983 people were read in Lower Manhattan, 184 at the Pentagon and forty in Shanksville. For the first time a seventh silence marked the thousands who have since died of what they breathed. And 2,977 drones drew two towers over the harbour.
Sep 12, 2026
Thismia daemona has no leaves, no chlorophyll and no need for sunlight. It surfaces only to flower, black with horn-like appendages and two orange patches that look like eyes, in an area smaller than a football pitch.
Sep 6, 2026
A global cafe boom collided with a limited Japanese harvest, and now matcha lattes are getting rationed, waitlisted, and quietly more expensive.
Oct 8, 2025
Paramedics, firefighters and volunteer rescuers are dying in numbers that have no modern precedent. In Lebanon alone, 110 emergency workers were killed in a matter of months. This is what they do, and what it costs.
Aug 13, 2026
