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Thirsty planet: understanding water demand, supply and scarcity in the 21st century
Source: https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/articles/the-power-of-water Water is ordinary until it isn’t. For most of human history, rivers, springs and rain felt inexhaustible: they shaped where we settled, fed our crops, and powered early industry. Today those assumptions no longer hold. Rising demand, changing climates, ageing infrastructure and deep inequalities mean that water is now one of the defining environmental and social challenges of our time. This article
Tom McAndrew
Nov 59 min read


Pollution in today's world
Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/air-pollution Take a deep breath. The air filling your lungs contains more than oxygen and nitrogen, it contains invisible particles, chemical traces and microscopic plastics that now drift across every continent, carried by winds, rivers and tides. Pollution is not a single problem, nor is it confined to distant industrial zones. It is the shadow side of modernity - the contamination of our air, water, soil and
Tom McAndrew
Nov 48 min read


Malthus vs. Boserup: Whose Theory Still Holds True Today?
Thomas Malthus, source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Robert_Malthus If you’ve ever studied population and resources in geography, you’ll know that one of the oldest and fiercest debates in the subject concerns whether humans are heading for crisis or creativity. Can our planet sustain a growing population, or are we bound to run up against limits? Two great thinkers, Thomas Robert Malthus and Ester Boserup, offered radically different answers to that question. Malthu
Tom McAndrew
Nov 19 min read


The River Severn Floods of 2024: How Management and Mitigation Shaped the Outcome
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_floods In February 2024, Britain’s longest river once again proved its power. The River Severn, stretching 354 kilometres from the Cambrian Mountains in Wales to the Bristol Channel, burst its banks after weeks of heavy rainfall, leading to widespread flooding across Shrewsbury, Bewdley, and Worcester. For many residents, it was a haunting reminder of previous flood disasters in 2007 and 2020. Yet this time, despite r
Tom McAndrew
Oct 197 min read


The Indus Unleashed: A flood management case study in Pakistan
Source: https://www.moneycontrol.com/world/india-warned-pakistan-of-high-floods-on-humanitarian-grounds-even-as-indus-waters-treaty-remains-suspended-article-13486997.html In the summer of 2025, the Indus River Basin in Pakistan became the stage for one of the country’s worst flooding crises in recent memory. From late June through September, unusually heavy monsoon rainfall, melting glaciers and water releases upstream converged in the Indus and its tributaries — the Chenab
Tom McAndrew
Oct 199 min read


The World’s Population Now - and where it’s heading!
Source: https://ourworldindata.org/global-population-pyramid You’ve probably heard the headline numbers: there are roughly eight billion...
Tom McAndrew
Oct 117 min read
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