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As you may know by now, CleanTechnica is producing its first large scale event, the Electric Home Show, in Honolulu, in April. It’s a 3 day festival of amazing earth-friendly fun, starting with a day for industry professionals, followed by 2 days of a consumer trade show with talks, workshops, ... [continued]
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Award-winning journalist, producer and editor Christine Spolar has joined Inside Climate News as associate publisher, a newly created position, after working for over a year as an editor in the newsroom.
VERDAD, a tool that helps journalists monitor Spanish-language radio broadcasts to spot misinformation and disinformation, has received a $350,000 grant from the MacArthur Foundation to further extend its reach and capabilities.
Martina Guzmán, who developed the tool in collaboration with RJI and with the help of a previous MacArthur grant, said the grant will help VERDAD shine a light on sometimes overlooked sources of false information at a time when audiences are more inundated than ever with misleading and contradictory content.
“Facts matter,” said Guzmán, director of the Race & Justice Reporting Initiative at Wayne State University — where VERDAD is based — and director of community journalism at nonprofit local newsroom Planet Detroit. “They determine how people vote, and it’s so important to democracy to be able to tell facts from disinformation. By empowering journalists to track what is being said in Spanish-language broadcasts, VERDAD also empowers voters to make informed decisions.”
Emerging from Guzmán’s 2022 investigation of Russian propaganda spreading on Spanish-language radio, VERDAD transcribes and translates audio with AI to detect patterns of false information on multiple stations in more than a dozen states, 24 hours per day. With as many as 97% of Latinos in the U.S. listening to radio programming on a monthly basis, Guzmán said ignoring the impact of dubius information in Spanish-language broadcasts risks leaving a wide-open blind spot for bad actors to exploit.
The grant will allow Guzmán to add support for additional languages such as Arabic, Haitian Creole and Vietnamese, making the tool a more comprehensive monitor of non-English radio broadcasts. It will also fund features that enhance usability for journalists and enable real-time fact checking.
In addition, she expects the funds to help her bring the tool to more newsrooms around the country who seek to accurately map the origins and spread of misinformation and disinformation.
Even as the grant ushers VERDAD into a new stage of development and distribution, Guzmán’s work with RJI is not done. She will visit RJI in person on Feb. 24 to speak about VERDAD and model its use, and she remains in contact with RJI Director of Innovation Kat Duncan as the tool evolves.
“Kat has been such an important mentor — I’m on a call with her every month,” Guzmán said. “I’m so grateful for the collaboration with RJI and the opportunities it has created to get VERDAD into the hands of journalists.”
“VERDAD is already a powerhouse tool, scanning radio stations across the country to help journalists in their work,” Duncan added. “I’m excited to see how this additional support will help us expand and grow investigations into misinformation and disinformation in many more communities that need it.”
To learn more about VERDAD, click here.
Fitzgerald, Austin (2026, Jan. 22). VERDAD earns $350,000 MacArthur Grant to boost fight against disinformation. Reynolds Journalism Institute. Retrieved from: https://rjionline.org/news/verdad-earns-350000-macarthur-grant-to-boost-fight-against-disinformation/
When Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a pointed rebuke this week of Donald Trump and the global economic system Washington helped shape, he urged other nations to help build a new world order—one that, he said, “embodies our values, like respect for human rights, sustainable development, solidarity, sovereignty and the territorial integrity of states.”
Plug-in hybrids are the hottest thing in South Africa right now in terms of sales growth. Sales of plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) were up 280% in 2025 compared with sales figures from 2024. That’s because 738 PHEVs were sold in 2024 and 2,808 PHEVs were sold in 2025 in the passenger ... [continued]
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The latest report from Ember shows solar and wind outperformed fossil fuel generation in the EU in 2025 for the first time ever.
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“Protecting the climate and protecting our democracy are inextricably linked,” veteran climate reporter and activist Bill McKibben said last week at a Covering Climate Now press briefing on climate journalism in 2026. US president Donald Trump “is in many ways operating as a political arm of the oil industry,” McKibben added, “and coming to grips with his authoritarian impulse is going to be crucial to ever getting any climate action.”
The struggle for democracy — in the streets of Minneapolis, Teheran, and beyond — is but one high-profile issue with a strong climate change connection. Internationally, Greenland, Venezuela, and Iran possess sizable amounts of oil whose burning could push Earth’s climate past catastrophic tipping points. In the US, the surging cost of electricity produced by coal and gas is shaping up as an issue in congressional elections this November that could either counter or reinforce Trump’s authoritarianism. Yet, climate change is still missing from most news coverage.
McKibben cited Trump’s obsession with Greenland as a perfect example of a story in which climate change should be a critical aspect of the story but isn’t. While most Greenland coverage has focused on the geo-political and military implications of Trump’s aggression, McKibben said, “the actual strategic asset in play here is a two-mile-thick sheet of ice that, if it melts, will change the lives of every person on planet Earth” by raising sea levels catastrophically.
Meanwhile, developments in Africa contrast sharply with the US’s U-turn on climate action, Mohamed Adow, director of the Nairobi-based NGO Power Shift Africa, said during the briefing. Africa has become “one of the world’s most important laboratories for climate solutions,” Adow said, though the speed at which change is happening is “often missed” by journalists. (This Bloomberg Green article offers an excellent exception.) “Kenya now generates 95% of our electricity from renewables,” Adow added. “Solar capacity has expanded rapidly in countries such as South Africa, Morocco, and Egypt…. Solar mini-grids in rural Nigeria, Tanzania, and Senegal are bringing reliable electricity to [rural] communities that fossil fuel-based grids have failed to reach for decades.”
In Europe, too, there are urgent climate stories to tell. The EU’s imposition of climate tariffs on January 1, 2026, for example, is an “incredibly important” development, said Guardian reporter Fiona Harvey, whose own reporting showed that, under the EU’s carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM), “companies selling steel, cement, and other high-carbon goods into the EU will have to prove that they comply with low-carbon regulations or face fines.” The tariff is aimed at companies that might “shift their manufacture of those high-carbon goods or services to another [country] that has more lax regulation,” Harvey said, “so you don’t actually get any carbon saving.”
Noting that editors like stories about unexpected developments, McKibben highlighted “the dramatic reduction in the price of clean energy, which is shaking up all of our assumptions.”
“With solar and wind now providing 90% of new generating capacity around the world,” McKibben said, “there’s nothing alternative about them anymore, and one of the stories [journalists] need to tell is that we’re breaking into a new paradigm.”
Editors also need to hear that polls repeatedly show that “people really do care about this stuff,” Harvey said. Our job as journalists, she added, is “to show them that there are constructive ways out of the mess, as well as presenting them with the reality of the mess.”
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Radar Clima: la escasez de agua. La última edición de Radar Clima, nuestro boletín en español para periodistas de todas las áreas, está dedicada a cómo cubrir la escasez de agua. Incluye datos clave, contactos de expertos y ángulos de cobertura para abordar una crisis que ya está transformando territorios y comunidades en América Latina y España. Échale un ojo a las ediciones anteriores y suscríbete para recibir el boletín cada dos miércoles.
WATCH: Venezuela, Oil, and Climate Change. Last week, CCNow hosted a discussion in the aftermath of the US seizure of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, about what could happen to Venezuela’s oil reserves — and what that might mean for climate change. Watch the recording.
“Water bankruptcy.” The global water crisis is entering a new era, according to a UN report, which notes that terms like “crisis” and “stressed” fail to capture the severity and scale of the situation. Humanity is “spending” its water budget faster than water sources, including rivers and lakes, can replenish; the cycle is made worse by climate change–fueled drought and heat. By Laura Paddison for CNN…
Climate at Davos? At the World Economic Forum, which kicked off this week in Davos, Switzerland, climate change has fallen down the priorities list for world leaders, with discussion focused instead on energy supplies, minerals, and rapidly shifting geopolitics. By Joe Lo, Megan Rowling, and Matteo Civillini for Climate Home News…
Unequal heat. To understand how extreme heat, worsened by climate change, impacts residents of Rio de Janeiro, researchers at the Netherlands’ Utrecht University have installed in-home thermometers in two favelas, asking residents to record temperatures. By Bruna Cabral for Reuters…
Trump, Venezuela, and the climate. Venezuela is home to 17% of the world’s known remaining oil reserves, which, though unlikely, if fully developed and used, would eat up the world’s remaining carbon budget to preserve a 1.5-degree-Celsius future. Heavy crude, the type found in Venezuela, is particularly emissions-intensive to process. By María Mónica Monsalve S. for El País…
“We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. There is such a thing as being too late.”
– Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Flooding in southern Africa. Did climate change impact the recent heavy rains in Mozambique, South Africa, Eswatini, and Zimbabwe? Join World Weather Attribution’s journalists-only press briefing on January 28, at 9am UTC to learn how climate change might have played a role. Journalists may email wwamedia@imperial.ac.uk to register.
Stories to watch. Join the World Resource Institute on January 29, at 2pm UTC, for a look ahead at the most important climate stories of 2026, including the clean energy transition and how climate solutions are affecting housing and jobs. Learn more and RSVP.
Journalism award. The Poynter Institute has added a new category for excellence in climate change reporting, with a cash prize of $10,000; apply by February 13, at 6pm US Eastern Time (11pm UTC). Learn more and apply.
Jobs. Resilience.org is hiring a managing editor (remote, contract). Sentient is hiring a project coordinator for its Iowa Reporting Project (remote in Iowa). The Plumas Sun is hiring a disaster-recovery reporter (Plumas County, Calif.). The New York Times is hiring an assistant editor, climate (New York, N.Y.).
Fellowship. The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute is accepting applications for its Science Communication Fellowships; apply by February 10. Report for America is hiring 70 fellows for their two-year program; apply by February 16. The University of Colorado at Boulder is accepting applications for its Ted Scripps Fellowship in Environmental Journalism; apply by March 1. The Arthur F. Burns Fellowship, which promotes cross-cultural exchange between German and North American journalists, is accepting applications for their 2026 fellowship; apply by February 1 for German fellows and March 1 for North American fellows.
Workshop. The Climate Journalism Network Austria is organizing an investigative workshop, “Follow the Carbon, the Money and the Data,” in Vienna, for journalists based in Europe. In a two-day workshop, on April 24 and 25, participants will learn how to trace emissions, examine lobbying at the EU level, and follow financial flows. Apply by January 31.
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As promised a couple months ago, Waymo has launched robotaxi service in Miami, Florida. (Thanks to a reader for pointing this out to me under my article about Tesla’s robotaxi coverage reaching 50% of the US population … or not.) After doing its usual process of testing, testing, and more ... [continued]
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Sheldon Whitehouse adds auto giant to investigation after US president claimed CEO requests changes to regulations
As the Trump administration prepares to overturn the rule underpinning virtually all US climate regulations, a Senate committee is investigating whether the US’s second-largest automaker lobbied for the rollback.
In September, the Senate environment and public works committee launched investigations into two dozen oil companies, thinktanks, law firms and trade associations, focused on how the companies may have persuaded the White House to initiate the repeal of the 2009 endangerment finding. Now, the committee, chaired by the Rhode Island senator Sheldon Whitehouse, is expanding the investigation to include Ford Motor Company.
Continue reading...… in a fairytale. Naturally, there have been so many claims and forecasts about Tesla “Full Self Driving” and robotaxis over the past decade that it’s become easy to forget them and to brush new ones under the rug quickly. However, Elon Musk made a huge one last year, and ... [continued]
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What you can learn from other newsrooms’ wayward decisions
The instability of corporate media has spurred journalists to launch hundreds of newsroom startups in the past decade.
Building any kind of news startup is exhilarating. You’re all in on the mission, you’ll shape the business model and the beats, you can pick your colleagues, and you get to write your own job description.
For nontraditional newsrooms there’s an added layer of excitement. These teams will also be rethinking how ownership, power, and decision-making can operate from the ground up.
Over the course of my RJI Fellowship the same mistakes have come up again and again from those I’ve spoken with. So, no matter the sort of newsroom you’re building, here’s seven startup mistakes and how to avoid them.
Many news founders set out to build newsrooms that have a clear revenue model, actively engage communities, and respect and support journalists.
The good and bad news is you will not succeed perfectly. No one has ever built a perfect workplace where there isn’t some frustration or stress about finances, beat structures, compensation and benefits, workloads, or interpersonal relationships.
This was a surprise for many teams, including Minnesota-based Racket.
“We’re building our own newsroom. How can there be problems with the thing that we made?” laughed co-founder Em Cassel. “We always are having conversations about, ‘Is this working? Is there a way to make this easier? Is someone shouldering more of the work than everyone else? Is stuff being distributed evenly?’”
Instead, have your team acknowledge your newsroom won’t be perfect and simply aim to build something better than what has come before.
Another way to think about it is that you’re solving more interesting problems, according to Chaclyn Hunt, a leadership team member at Invisible Institute.
“I like the problems here,” said Hunt. “How do you work things out on a personal level? How do you do it in a way that feels good? How are you producing strong work according to your values? [I like it more than] how do you deal with your boss?”
There are many things you absolutely must do when you launch a newsroom: legally incorporate (and set up bylaws or other governance documents), get a bookkeeper, purchase insurance, and decide on a payroll and benefits provider, to name a few.
But many decisions are just traditions, and you should constantly ask, ‘Why are we doing this?’
“We spent so much time early on looking for an office,” said Athens County Independent’s co-founder Corinne Colbert. “We wasted so much time. Then we realized we’re kind of putting the cart ahead of the horse here. We don’t even have a product. So who gives a shit if we have an office, and shouldn’t we worry more about paying ourselves?”
Abigail Higgins, a co-founder of D.C. publication The 51st, describes all these decisions as the “beautiful and difficult thing” about building a new startup.
“There isn’t a right way,” Higgins said.
Every newsroom is different, but learning from how other newsrooms choose to spend their limited funds can help you make the most informed decisions possible. So don’t be afraid to ask for a quick phone call or send a short email with one or two specific questions — you’ll be surprised how much other founders want to pass on some of their learnings.
Here’s a few financial mistakes in particular to ask about and be wary of:
First, make sure your policies and processes are written down. The newsroom described above that faced challenges over a project’s approval struggled because they hadn’t documented how a project is approved.
Second, don’t think these policies and processes will last forever.
In the first year or two, most startup teams are running on sheer adrenaline. This energy can help support workflows and practices that aren’t sustainable in the long-term.
This happened with Racket’s workloads, when two of the co-founders were doing the vast majority of work on weekly features that left them exhausted.
“You can kind of suffer through almost anything for a certain amount of time. Then you’ll look around and be like, ‘No, actually, I can’t do this for another 2 years, we need to figure out a solution,” said Cassel.
These sorts of crisis points, when tensions will inevitably rise because policies or processes need updating, are not a failure but an inevitable part of a business maturing.
To head this off, lay out in your first year when and how specific processes and policies will be revisited. Even a simple sentence will allow everyone to have a clear understanding of what needs to be done when change is needed.
It’s easy to blur the line between work and life when startups become all encompassing. But as you grow you need to establish organizational boundaries because “the magic just does not scale,” said Hell Gate’s co-founder Nick Pinto.
“Navigating the transition from friends who sort things out over beer to institutional protocols for channeling conflict and resolving decisions is complicated, ongoing and takes time. I wish we had sorted some of that out sooner and more thoroughly,” said Pinto.
This was an adjustment for Defector during their pandemic-era launch as well, when their whole team was constantly online and making ad hoc decisions.
“There were just bad habits around people chiming in [late at night] and being like, ‘Hey, wouldn’t it be cool if we did it this way?’ And then the three people who are awake are like, ‘Oh yeah, that’s great.’ And then everybody else wakes up and they’re like, ‘Wait a second, that’s not how you do things,’” said co-founder Jasper Wang.
Wang said they eventually made it clear that business decisions must be made during work hours at their regular meetings every few days.
If you find yourself chatting with a co-founder outside work hours ask yourself, are we having a ‘how’s work going conversation?’ or are we having a ‘how are we running the business conversation?’ The latter needs to involve your team.
Setting out strategies and processes for editorial, audience engagement, and revenue are critical.
But these aren’t the only standards newsrooms should set. Startup teams should define what is (and isn’t) reasonable to expect from one another in terms of communication, accountability, and conflict resolution.
When The Appeal first launched we received advice to develop HR processes now, because by the time we would need them it would be too late — advice that ended up being correct. The same thing happened with Canopy Atlanta, which had to pull together a process when a problem arose.
“You don’t want to be building your conflict policy when you’re in that moment of crisis,” said co-founder Mariann Martin, of Canopy Atlanta,
Try to develop a simple conflict resolution policy and disciplinary process by the end of your first year. You can also establish accountability norms in low-lift ways with:
By starting now, the team will be more comfortable with these approaches by the time you ever have to use them, creating a foundation of trust.
Delaying a hard decision because of the challenges and pain it will cause will only make those greater.
This was the case for Atlanta Community Press Collective, when executive director Matt Scott knew he had to let someone go.
“We spent a lot of money continuing to pay their salary and paying for lost time amongst the team to try to fix a situation that I knew wasn’t going to work. It was costlier to try to fix it, than to acknowledge that this is a problem and it’s untenable, emotionally and organizationally. We stalled growth. We could have hired people earlier, but we stopped growth while we were going through this,” said Scott.
A similar situation happened at RANGE.
“We spent way, way, way too long surfacing the problem, and then we spent way too long at every stage addressing the problems,” said co-owner Luke Baumgarten. “I don’t think it’s merciful to drag these things out anymore. I had to get a lot more comfortable with conflict. And I only got more comfortable with conflict when I realized this was a failure to confront a problem head on.”
Save yourself, others involved, and your newsroom from even more pain and have the conversations now.
Next month, I’ll be launching my RJI Fellowship project that will include a 70+ page guidebook on best practices for addressing many of these mistakes, as well as example policies, templates, and recommended vendors shared by many of the newsrooms quoted in this article.
Chan, Tara Francis (2026, Jan. 21). Mistakes news startups make – and how to avoid them. Reynolds Journalism Institute. Retrieved from: https://rjionline.org/news/mistakes-news-startups-make-and-how-to-avoid-them/
The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) has just published a report about renewable energy jobs: Renewable Energy and Jobs Annual Review 2025. What really jumps out is the fact that about 16.6 million people worked in renewable energy jobs last year. “At least 16.6 million people were directly or indirectly ... [continued]
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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a searing speech on Tuesday in Davos, Switzerland, about “the rupture in the world order” and Canada’s role in whatever comes next.
Extreme heat ‘is getting worse and whether we like it or not … there’s ultimately a limit to what we can actually physically cope with,’ scientist says
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Human-caused global heating made the intense heatwave that affected much of Australia in early January five times more likely, new analysis suggests.
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Many of us said it as soon as Donald Trump got elected again — he was going to drive the USA’s standing in the world down so much that we’d never recover. It’s clear that the USA’s influence in the world has been on a slow decline and in a ... [continued]
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A new compact, containerized energy storage system can store up solar power and deliver it for more than 100 hours at a time, day or night.
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Stuti Mishra reports from a site in western India that’s roughly seven times larger than the city of Paris and combines solar and wind power to produce energy around the clock. Nothing on this scale exists anywhere else in the world
Ormat Technologies and Carbon Direct Capital co-lead Series B financing, which will support the development of Sage’s first next-generation geothermal power generation project. Sage Geosystems, the company pioneering Pressure Geothermal, closed over $97 million in Series B funding to advance its geothermal power generation and energy storage solutions, including its ... [continued]
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ChargePoint (NYSE: CHPT), a global leader in electric vehicle (EV) charging solutions, today announced that the company is enabling Midwestern Wheels, a licensee of Avis Budget Group, to deliver reliable EV charging to its rental car customers and those living in their local communities. New public charging deployments at Midwestern Wheels’ ... [continued]
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Two studies published this year put a spotlight on how changes in the ocean are affecting the planet and the global economy.
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Mark Carney lit up the stage at Davos this week with a clear eyed vision of what the world and Canada will need in a post-US era.
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Europe’s gas crisis in 2022 is often described as a supply shock driven by geopolitics, but that framing misses the core lesson. The crisis was not caused by import dependence in general, nor by shortages of industrial feedstocks. It was caused by reliance on an imported energy carrier that sat ... [continued]
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As the United States retreats from climate policy, China signaled its rising intent to lead a transition away from fossil fuels and toward Chinese-made renewable energy technologies in remarks to world leaders on Tuesday.
Germany’s hydrogen backbone with no customers and no suppliers has been examined from multiple angles in this series, starting with the pipeline from nowhere to nowhere itself and the energy and other demand flows that won’t materialize, then moving through Germany’s misguided analyses that led to it, the implications of ... [continued]
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The EX90 was Volvo’s first blank sheet electric vehicle and mapped out the road ahead for the company. It was a fully digital vehicle built on Volvo’s modular electric vehicle platform that is controlled by a completely new vehicle control system programmed completely in house at Volvo. The launch was ... [continued]
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EL PASO—In October 2025, local officials celebrated the groundbreaking of a 1-gigawatt, $1.5 billion data center for the tech giant Meta.
A new cost-cutting, AI-driven, underground exploration system is revealing hidden geothermal resources in the US, and investors are taking notice.
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Many European countries will get new 400 kW public EV chargers by 2028. They are Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Czechia, and Estonia. Over 250 fast-charging hubs will be installed at major shopping and commercial centers and each hub will have as many as 12 charging ports. The total ... [continued]
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Volkswagen Group saw strong sales in 2025 and now has nearly a 20% market share in Germany. New EVs are coming in 2026.
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The US startup Syzygy Plasmonics is on track to scale up sustainable aviation fuel produced from waste gas in a reactor powered by light, not heat.
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Zwickau vehicle plant to become Volkswagen AG’s centre of excellence for the circular economy From 2030, up to 15,000 vehicles are to be disassembled and recycled annually The Free State of Saxony is funding the project with around eleven million euros The results of the 2024 collective agreement will be ... [continued]
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La escasez de agua afecta a miles de millones de personas en todo el planeta, y su abastecimiento no está garantizado. El calentamiento global está alterando los patrones de lluvia, acelerando la evaporación y derritiendo glaciares que antes nutrían a ríos y ciudades. Según Naciones Unidas, para 2030 la demanda global de agua podría superar la oferta disponible en más de un 40%. La sobreexplotación agrícola, el crecimiento urbano y la contaminación de ríos y acuíferos agravan el problema.
En grandes ciudades como Bogotá, Ciudad de México y Santiago de Chile, los embalses han llegado a niveles históricamente bajos debido a años de sequía prolongada, temperaturas por encima de la media y precipitaciones erráticas. En el norte de México y el suroeste de Estados Unidos, la presión sobre ríos como el Colorado y el Bravo/Río Grande ha desatado tensiones diplomáticas y los acuerdos que regían desde hacía décadas ahora están en entredicho. En España, en zonas como Andalucía, Cataluña y el sureste mediterráneo, aunque las lluvias han vuelto en el último año, el estrés hídrico es frecuente, con restricciones crecientes del uso del agua en la agricultura y el consumo urbano.
Los impactos de esta escasez están transformando economías y modos de vida. En comunidades indígenas y rurales, la falta de agua afecta a la seguridad alimentaria y obliga a migraciones, ya sean internas o internacionales. En zonas urbanas, los gobiernos están racionando el agua, invirtiendo en infraestructura costosa como la desalinización o recurriendo a transporte por pipas. La escasez también agrava desigualdades: las áreas más vulnerables suelen ser las últimas en recibir agua potable.
La escasez de agua obliga a las personas a cambiar su forma de vivir. Contar sus historias permite a nuestras audiencias comprender la urgencia y la inequidad de esta crisis.
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La falta de agua se vive de forma distinta según dónde nos encontremos: podemos encontrar ríos que desaparecen o racionamientos urbanos. Si contamos su impacto local, se hace más real.
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Historias para inspirarte
Hay gobiernos, empresas, científicos y comunidades que están probando soluciones, y nuestra audiencia tiene derecho a saber qué está funcionando y qué es lo que falla.
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The 2026 Winter Olympics will rely on millions of cubic metres of artificial snow
The Interior Department said pausing construction of offshore wind farms would allow the government agencies to work with project developers to mitigate potential risks. But wind companies say the administration isn't sharing information about newly-discovered threats.
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