A water channel of the Medjreda Dam runs dry due to lack of rainfall, in Tunis, Tunisia, Dec. 27, 2022 (photo for NurPhoto by Yassine Mahjoub via AP Images). In June, the residents of Tiaret, a ...

From Mexico City to the Mekong Delta, increasingly severe droughts caused by climate change are laying waste to ecosystems ...

VICENZA, Italy – “You’re depleting our water” is not the comment U.S. partners want to hear from a host nation after an exercise, especially one experiencing a drought in Northern Africa.

As a sociologist who investigates the politics of water (hydropolitics), and social inequality, I’ve examined the roots of “invented” water scarcity in South Africa. Invented water scarcity ...

According to UN Water and Winrock International , over 50% of Africa’s surface freshwater is concentrated in a single country — the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This extraordinary ...

A part of Northern Africa is slowly splitting apart from the rest of the continent and may eventually create a whole new ocean, according to scientists. The phenomenon is due to plate tectonics in ...

After more than 30 years without access to clean water, residents SEP, residents of Yanfiki, a rural community in Kano State, can now access safe drinking water following the installation of a ...

Millions of years from now, Northern Africa could be home to a new ocean as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, scientists say. Experts have long known that portions of ...

Iceland sits atop a similar rift area as Northern Africa, and it's possible to scuba dive into a lake that has formed between the separating areas.. When was the last time we got a new ocean? Without ...