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Realities of Climate-Induced Migration in Iraq's Southern Cities: New IOM Report Environmental degradation over the last 10 years has severely damaged Iraq's agricultural sector. Worsening water scarcity and quality has left the sector unable to support sufficient and sustainable livelihoods, particularly in rural areas, where it has long been the main workforce employer. This has […]

When the first American settlers saw the Great Salt Lake they believed it was evidence of the Biblical deluge. That idea may hold some truth!

But most importantly what i see for the mayor and inspectors is new means and methods to inspect the existing structures with the technology that we have today. infared or whatever it is, sonar. whatever we have. question check the salinity. we have an ability better than ever before to understand clearly what is behind the walls and the concrete and see the condition of the buildings. and i am seeing like we did with hurricane andrew, we will revamp the way we look at our florida building code ...

>> so in the data we saw just what we normally see. you can see the salinity. its normal water quality parameters. >> translation, thats clean water. right now only marine creatures are benefiting from it. with this massive infrastructure project, thats supposed to change. los angeles has a plan to recycle almost all of its treated wastewater by 2035. this is an important goal for a city that imports most of its water from hundreds of miles away, from places where the water supply is threatened ...

Bec because whenever you start the restoration of a building as such you find hidden conditions, and it is always more than what originally described. it just continuously opens up the cancer within the building. what im seeing now from the mayor, from the people involved in the inspection in the building departments and also engineers, i see them looking into a new way as we did when we first turned the page after hurricane andrew. we completely revamped the code of the south florida building c...

>> look, this building is not old. this building is young. i was in high school when this building was being built. whats interesting here is when we -- when we design buildings, we design everything slope to drains so the water runs up. especially, here. where the water has salt in it. has salinity. we try to get the water away, and drained away from the structure. from the steel. as fast as possible. but like the engineer said, if this really was a waterproofing issue. where the water, continu...

The impact of the increase in salinity of Madhumati river water is having a devastating effect on public health, agriculture, and the environment.

New research has unveiled how climate change affected an ancient mega-lake which engulfed Europe and Asia 12 million years ago.

People in coastal areas facing displacement, losing jobs due to frequent cyclones, rising salinity caused by climate change - Anadolu Agency

Salts in the soil can make it so very few plants will grow there, and the problem will often get worse if not addressed.