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All you need is fog. Here's how to extract water from the air. It's a low-tech, cheap way to get fresh water as it becomes increasingly hard to get in many parts...

Everyone wants a car, but what happens if that dream comes true? In India cheap cars are starting to flood the market and those dreams are becoming reality. But at what price?...

For millions of people glaciers are a major store of fresh water, collecting in the winter and then melting in the hotter dry season and keeping rivers flowing, farmers farming and cities...

The climate is changing and droughts are getting worse. Food riots have become an all too familiar response to shortages and rising prices. Can science deliver the answers?

Our climate is changing, droughts are more severe and last longer. A regional drought can be a global disaster prompting food riots in distant countries. Was Australia's decade long drought a taste...

Warmer weather also pleases the mosquitos that spread Dengue fever, a sometimes fatal disease that has recoded a 30x increase in cases in 50 years. Up to 500m people suffer Dengue. Getting...

10 yrs ago a European heat wave killed 70,000 people. We used to get 3 days that hot every decade, but it's going to rise to 40 days. If Europe is struggling...

Global supplies are under pressure as our weather changes. Food prices rise, people go hungry. Can Africa grow enough of its own to meet demand?

    Is drought the new normal? Australia, California, large areas of Africa and C & S America and more are suffering. In Australia, the Millennium Drought was a disaster for the...