The climate action emissions evidence
By Erika Yarrow-Soden
The United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) 16th edition of the Emissions Gap Report makes worrying, but not unexpected reading. It finds that...
2024 – a year of extremes
By Erika Yarrow-Soden
The State of Global Water Resources 2024 report, an annual publication by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), documents 2024 as an extraordinary...
Parched Earth
The latest United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) report ‘Drought Hotspots Around the World 2023–2025’, produced jointly by the UNCCD and the US...
Tackling the AMR threat
By Erika Yarrow-Soden
‘Global research agenda for antimicrobial resistance in human health’ is the World Health Organization’s (WHO) latest research agenda aimed at providing guidance...
The human cost of the climate crisis
By Erika Yarrow-Soden
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) report, No Escape: On the frontlines of Climate Change, Conflict and Forced Displacement, published...
The planet’s deepening waters
By Erika Yarrow-Soden
The UN’s technical brief Surging seas in a warming world: The latest science on present-day impacts and future projections of sea-level rise...
Six years and counting
By Erika Yarrow-Soden
The United Nations (UN) 2024 Financing for Sustainable Development Report: Financing for Development at a Crossroads (FSDR 2024), a joint product of...
Conflict or peace? Making water a power for good
By Erika Yarrow-Soden
The United Nations World Water Development Report (WWDR) 2024, Water for Prosperity and Peace, was launched on 22 March, marking World Water...
A decade of extremes
By Erika Yarrow-Soden
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) report The Global Climate 2011-2020: A Decade of Acceleration punctuated the close of 2023 with the second...
Groundwater: Nature’s hidden gem
Published in June, the World Bank’s global groundwater report, The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Economics of Groundwater in Times of Climate Change, highlights...
FEATURED STORY
How can machine learning improve data quality assurance?
Karen Schulz, one of the authors of a recent paper on the use of machine learning to improve sensor quality control, published in IWA...
NEWS
UK’s first wastewater monitoring pilot
The UK’s first pilot wastewater monitoring centre has been launched at the University of Bath.
Researchers at the Excellence Water-Based Early-Warning Systems for Health Protection...
