Rivers drying up around the world
2022 CE • Worldwide
"From the U.S. to Italy to China, waters have receded, leaving nothing but barren banks of silt and oozing, muddied sand. Canals are empty. Reservoirs have turned to dust. The world is fully in the grip of accelerating climate change . . ."
Brian K Sullivan, "The World’s Rivers, Canals and Reservoirs Are Turning to Dust," Bloomberg, August 26, 2022.
Image: Nasha Ila via Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 DEED, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic
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