Creating water, oxygen, and fuel from air and soil: fantasy became reality in 2026. Technologies and proposals
The invention, developed by Jordanian-American chemist and 2025 Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry Omar Yaghi, uses a scientific technique called reticular chemistry to create molecularly modified materials that can extract moisture from the air and collect water even in arid desert conditions.
Drought and widespread desertification exacerbate poverty, hunger, energy insecurity and ecosystem destruction
According to a new UN-supported report, some of the most severe and devastating droughts in human history have occurred since 2023, driven by climate change and ongoing pressure on land and water resources. The report, “Global Drought Hotspots 2023–2025,” provides a comprehensive account of how droughts exacerbate poverty, hunger, energy insecurity, and ecosystem destruction.
The world is seeing a sharp drop in fresh water levels and rising sea levels
The Earth’s sea levels are rising, damaging the livelihoods and infrastructure of coastal communities around the world. Agencies and organizations are working to prepare people for the changing world around them. An international team of scientists, using observations from NASA-German satellites, has found evidence that the total amount of fresh water on Earth has dropped sharply since May 2014 and has remained low since then.
The obvious consequences of global warming are already being observed: a blow to the world economy, drying up of reservoirs, floods and earthquakes
Scientists have discovered the many faces of global warming: it not only accelerates the melting of glaciers, raising the level of the World Ocean, but also leads to seismic activity. Over the past 30 years, the amount of dust in Central Asia has increased by 7%. One of the reasons for this is the drying up of the Aral Sea. The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) said on Wednesday that the famous waterway continues to face a shortage of water.
June 2024 was the hottest on record on the planet. Summer 2023 is the hottest in 2,000 years (or 10,000 years)
Last June was the hottest month on record and the 13th month in a row to set a monthly temperature record, according to new data released by the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. For 12 months in a row, the average global temperature has been 1.5°C higher than in the pre-industrial era. The average sea surface temperature in June was 20.85°C, which is also the highest value in the entire period of observation.
Groundwater reserves are catastrophically declining
Groundwater supplies are being depleted in aquifers around the world, a new study has found, with the rate of decline accelerating over the past four decades in nearly a third of the aquifers studied. Rapid declines in water levels are most common in aquifers beneath cropland in drier regions, the largest analysis of groundwater trends shows.