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Global Energy Demand Driving Australia’s Coal and Gas Export Boom
International demand and new technologies have pushed the nation to the top for hydrocarbon exports. But massive production has also created worries over water use and pollution. Photo © Aaron Jaffe /...
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Droughts Hit World’s Agricultural Regions: Without Water, U.S. Corn Crop...
Droughts have struck food-producing regions in the United States, Russia, China, North Korea, and South Korea, raising the prospect of higher commodity prices and localized food shortages. Photo...
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Weak Monsoon Raises Specter of Drought in India
Monsoon rainfall is 14 percent below average in India, which depends on rainwater to feed more than 50 percent of its agricultural land. Image courtesy of Voyage On Wheels via Flickr Creative Commons...
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Protests Break Out After India’s Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Downstream...
A decades-long quarrel over water allocations boils up again during this year’s dry summer, ending in farmer protests and increased security. Image courtesy of ThumNuve The Cauvery River flows past...
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China and Netherlands to Research Novel Form of Large-scale Tidal Power
The long-term goal: a project with a power capacity greater than the world’s second-largest hydropower dam. Image courtesy of POWER Representatives from China’s National Energy Administration and the...
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Food Supply, Fracking, and Water Scarcity Challenge China’s Juggernaut Economy
New project finds that building the world’s fastest-growing economy risks public safety and tests global resource limits. Photo © J. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue An expensive program to expand...
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Scarcity of Water and Land Shifts Geography of Food Production and Irrigation...
Rich land, ample water, and human persistence have turned virgin prairie into the nation’s primary breadbasket. Photo © Adam Dean for Circle of Blue Farmers harvest corn near Tongliao in Inner...
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Photo Slideshow: Irrigating Northeastern China’s Breadbasket
The northeast region of China, including Heilongjiang, Liaoning and Jilin provinces, is among the world’s most important breadbaskets. Earlier this year, as Circle of Blue reported in this Choke Point:...
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China’s Water Reserves and World’s Warming Atmosphere Wait For Natural Gas...
China’s deep shale reserves are treacherous to tap and slow to develop. Photo © Keith Schneider / Circle of Blue China’s first three deep shale natural gas wells were drilled close to Liu Zhongqi’s...
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Map: China’s Provincial Grain Production (1997-2010)
Click through the interactive infographic to see how China, the world’s largest nation and second-largest economy, has shifted its breadbaskets to the northeast. World’s Biggest Grain Producer Photo ©...
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Toxic Water: Across Much of China, Huge Harvests Irrigated with Industrial...
The dirty truth about the world’s largest grain producer. Photo © Aaron Jaffe / Circle of Blue Polluted water and trash mingle on the bank of the Yellow River in Lanzhou, China. Click image to enlarge...
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Map: China’s Provincial Energy Production (1997-2010)
Click through the interactive infographic to see how China, the world’s largest nation and second-largest economy, races to meet rising demand for energy. Similar Interactive China Maps Map © Samuel...
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Map: China’s Provincial Water Resources and Use (2002-2010)
Click through the interactive infographic to see how China, the world’s largest nation and second-largest economy, faces multiple challenges for sustaining its water supply. Similar Interactive China...
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Photo Slideshow: China’s Polluted Waters
Pollution is a major driver of water scarcity in China, especially in the places where economic growth is the highest and water resources are under the most stress — China’s dry northern breadbaskets...
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Choke Point: India — The Leopard in the Well
The Green Revolution that catalyzed grain production in the mid-1960s ended India’s fear of famine. But achieving food abundance is overwhelming India’s mammoth and unwieldy bureaucracy, draining its...
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Scarcity in a Time of Surplus: Free Water and Energy Cause Food Waste and...
Farm policies intended to remove risk from the grain-producing economy have pulled India from the perennial fear of famine. But inefficient bureaucracy and rampant corruption also promote the...
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Photo Slideshow: Chandigarh, Shared Capital of Punjab and Haryana
Home to 1 million, Chandigarh is considered the ‘cleanest city’ in India. It also has the highest per capita income, thanks in large part to the agricultural boom since the Green Revolution of the...
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Photo Slideshow: Punjab’s Food Producers
Before the Green Revolution of the mid-1960s, growers in northern India produced an elegant feast of native fruits, grains, and vegetables. By the 1980s, Punjab and Haryana states had together become...
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Photo Slideshow: Haryana’s Food Processors
In an attempt to remove risk from the grain-producing economy, India guarantees that it will purchase at generous prices and mill at no cost to producers every kernel of wheat and almost every grain of...
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Mismanagement of Abundance: Constellation of Coal Mines Across India Not...
Corruption, bureaucracy, slow environmental reviews, and inefficient transmission lines are causing water depletion and unstable energy supply. Photo © Aubrey Ann Parker / Circle of Blue Southeastern...
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