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The abundance of diverse “unconventional water sources”

UNU Institute for Water, Environment & Health, Hamilton, Canada Tapping a fraction can help meet fast-growing global freshwater needs UN and partner water experts say

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World “at a crossroads” in management of droughts, up 29% in a generation

United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Bonn Humanity is “at a crossroads” when it comes to managing drought and accelerating mitigation must be done

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CEC Secretariat recommends factual record on vaquita porpoise

Commission for Environmental Cooperation, Montreal The Secretariat of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) has recommended developing a factual record to explore factors contributing to the near-extinction

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Mould, pesticides, toxic chemicals reported in survey of Canadian child care professionals

CDN Partnership for Children’s Health and Environment / Canadian Child Care Federation Nearly half of some 2,000 professionals in child care programs across Canada who

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Chronic land degradation: UN report offers stark warnings, remedies

United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Bonn Up to 40 % of the planet’s land is degraded, directly affects half of humanity, threatens roughly half

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Study quantifies metal supplies needed to reach EU’s climate neutrality goal

KU LEUVEN / EUROMETAUX Independent KU Leuven university study, commissioned by EU industry, echoes IEA warning of severe global competition for several metals needed in

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UN: 500 million live in 19 African nations deemed water insecure

United Nation University Institute for Water, Environment & Health 1st assessment of water security in Africa is based on 10 indicators Despite global Sustainable Development

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50% more wildfires foreseen by 2100; Governments are not prepared: UN

UN Environment Programme Even the Arctic, previously all but immune, faces rising wildfire risk; Wildfires and climate change are “mutually exacerbating”; Governments are called to

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Global Library of Underwater Biological Sounds, “GLUBS,” will help monitor marine life

The Rockefeller University Programme for the Human Environment, International Quiet Ocean Experiment By assembling and expanding first-ever global audio collection of aquatic life, scientists aim

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97% of Latin America’s e-waste is mismanaged; Includes annual $1.7B in recoverable materials

UNIDO and UN University, Bonn 1st Latin American e-waste report covers 13 countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama,

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Scientists urge quick, deep, sweeping changes to halt, reverse dangerous biodiversity loss

GEO BON / bioDISCOVERY Proposed target of protecting 30% of land and seas by 2030 is important but will leave humankind far short of its

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In the news, 2021: Our clients’ most noted science news releases of the year

Terry Collins & Assoc., Toronto Of the 18 science news releases produced in 2021, 16 were environment-themed: food waste, e-waste, oceans, biodiversity, dams, and floods.

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E-waste in former Soviet countries jumps ~50% in a decade; just 3.2% collected, treated

UN University / UNITAR, Bonn Electronic waste generated in the Commonwealth of Independent States + Georgia rose by 50% between 2010 and 2019, roughly the

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A Clean Ocean by 2030: United Nations Panel of Experts Charts the Most Direct Course

Clean Ocean Int’l Expert Group, New York Reducing marine debris by 50-90% and a globe circling, high-tech system of monitors are two essential aims among

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International E-Waste Day: 57.4M tonnes expected in 2021 will outweigh China’s Great Wall

UN University / WEEE Forum, Brussels The e-waste result of an online streaming explosion: an emerging concern / information gap On International E-Waste Day 2021,

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New UN Mapping Tool Reveals Global Floods Since 1985 to Aid Disaster Planning

United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton, Canada See also: “Popular Science Magazine: UN’s World Flood Mapping Tool is One of 2021’s

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UNU-INWEH news making highlights, 1996-2021

United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton, Canada Media worldwide have often helped communicate UNU-INWEH’s scientific and policy-relevant discoveries and insights to

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Scientists offer new insights on computer power growth, past and future

The Rockefeller University, Programme for Human Environment Researchers at The Rockefeller University have shed new light on “Moore’s Law” — perhaps the world’s most famous

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UN’s new global framework for managing nature: 1st detailed draft agreement launched

UN Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal Draft 1 of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework includes 21 action targets proposed for 2030; Will be considered at

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Leonardo da Vinci: New family tree spans 21 generations, finds 14 living male descendants

Leonardo da Vinci DNA Project, The Rockefeller University, New York Paper offers foundation to advance search for Leonardo’s DNA The surprising results of a decade-long

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IPBES/IPCC: Tackling the biodiversity and climate crises together, and their combined social impacts

IPBES, Bonn (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform On Biodiversity And Ecosystem Services) Unprecedented changes in climate and biodiversity, driven by human activities, have combined and increasingly threaten

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More harmful algal bloom impacts emerge amid rising seafood demand, coastal development

UNESCO, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, Paris An unprecedented analysis of almost 10,000 Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) events worldwide over the past 33 years was launched today

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