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Water collection might be easier with the help of remote sensing technology. Photo: <a href="http://www.mercycorps.org/jillmorehead/blog/25839">Jill Morehead (Mercy Corps)</a>

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A map of subterranean lakes could cut Kenya's water prices

Kenya has invisible lakes beneath its surface—an estimated 60 billion cubic metres of underground water. A new project intends to tap that untouched source to fight thirst and drought.

Failure to adapt to global climate change led to unrest across the Arab World. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/6argoo3a/6253592631/sizes/m/in/photostream/">Saleem-Homsi (Flickr)</a>

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How climate change puts the heat on governments

Incompetent, unjust governance by some of the Middle East’s worst despots brewed a recipe for disaster before the Arab Spring, but it took climate change to turn up the heat.

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Turning air into water

Even in the driest of deserts, there’s a hidden water source: the air.

The Ganges River Delta, in Pakistan, could be feeding a lot more people. Photo: <a href=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/lunarandplanetaryinstitute/5039101579/”> Lunar Planetary Institute (Flickr)</a>

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Why we have enough water

This article was republished by The Christian Science Monitor.

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Restoring Eden

In the early 1990s Saddam Hussein drained what biblical scholars believe to be the Garden of Eden. With the water went the people, known as the Ma’dan, and their way of life. Now, Iraqi-American hydraulic engineer Dr.

Iraq's Marsh Arabs have coexisted with the wetlands' unique ecosystem for 6,000 years. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/httpblogsinacomcnhomeofbeijingpeople/3610424640/">Dr. Michael Izady, Ph.D. (flickr)</a>

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Drought, Dams Threaten Iraq's Marsh Arabs

Southern Iraq is home to one of the largest wetlands in the world, where the tributaries of the Tigris and Euphrates meet.

Sugar is a popular commodity in India, where imports are expected to rise as droughts cause sugar prices to rise by 50 percent. Here vendors make sugar cane juice. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jim-c/229985380/in/se">Jim-C (flickr)</a>

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India's Sugar Struggles

Sugar rushes tend to be followed by sugar crashes.

Millions are on the edge of starvation in the Horn of Africa due in part to severe drought. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/faugusto/73577336/">Filipe Moreira (flickr)</a>

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The Hungry Horn

Somalia and Ethiopia are hovering at the edge of famine.

Photo: <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/hob/199546789/">Rob McDougall (flickr)</a>

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Africa's Energy Shortfall

Access to cheap energy underpins modern societies. Finding enough to fuel industrialized economies and pull developing countries out of poverty without overheating the climate is a central challenge of the 21st century.

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African Ecologists Unite for the Environment

Scientists in Africa are joining together to fight the effects of climate change, pests and unsustainable development.

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Ugandan Forests in Danger

Uganda's disappearing forests may induce climate change, extend drought, hurt agricultural production and weaken control of infectious diseases.

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Favourable Early Outlook for World Cereal Production in 2007

United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization Crop Prospects and Food Situation Report outlines food security challenges for the coming year.

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Access to Clean Water in Liberia Difficult During Dry Season

Water and sanitation problems persist in Liberia more than three years after the end of the country's civil war.

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Outgrowing the Earth

This book documents the ways that human demands are outstripping the earth\'s natural capacities-and how the resulting environmental damage is undermining food production.

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