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Irrigation plots between Lake Nasser and Toshka Lakes, Egypt Egypt's aridity and shortage of arable land are critical issues. Egypt is 97% desert and is therefore dependent on the Nile River for its existence. Only 5% of the land area in Egypt is actually occupied and less than 4%...

By Peter Prokosch

By Peter Prokosch

Lake Nasser, Egypt, February 2013 The Aswan High Dam, built in the 1960s, created major change in one of the world’s largest and most famous rivers. The dam stopped the annual flooding that pro- vided new fertile soil each year, the basis for agriculture...

By Peter Prokosch

By Peter Prokosch

Rio+20 Poster At the Rio+20 Conference, world leaders, along with thousands of participants from governments, the private sector, NGOs and other groups, came together to shape how we can reduce poverty, advance social equity and ensur...

By Peter Prokosch

Rio+20, Snowy Egret, Egretta thula, Rio de Janeiro At the Rio+20 Conference, world leaders, along with thousands of participants from governments, the private sector, NGOs and other groups, came together to shape how we can reduce poverty, advance social equity and ensur...

By Peter Prokosch

Rio+20, Victoria Regia, Victoria amazonica, Botanical Garden, Rio de Janeiro At the Rio+20 Conference, world leaders, along with thousands of participants from governments, the private sector, NGOs and other groups, came together to shape how we can reduce poverty, advance social equity and ensur...

By Peter Prokosch

Rio+20, Masked Water-tyrant (fluvicola nengeta), Rio de Janeiro At the Rio+20 Conference, world leaders, along with thousands of participants from governments, the private sector, NGOs and other groups, came together to shape how we can reduce poverty, advance social equity and ensur...

By Peter Prokosch

Lake Naivasha, Kenya Lake Naivasha is a freshwater lake in the Rift Valley North-West of Nairobi. The lake and its surrounding swamps, grass- and woodlands are home to a high diversity of wildlife, among them more than 400 bird species and a...

By Peter Prokosch

Glacier front with blue ice, Svalbard Glacial ice appears blue under immense pressure. Snow falling onto ice is compressed as the glacier winds its way through valleys, to a body of water (river, lake, ocean etc.) During its travels, air bubbles trapped in t...

By Peter Prokosch

Horned Grebe (Podiceps auritus,) Porsanger Fjord The Horned Grebe or Slavonian Grebe, Podiceps auritus, is a member of the grebe family of water birds. It appears in Northern Norway (here at a breeding site at the Porsanger fjord) when in May the lake ice is opening. ...

By Peter Prokosch

Irrigation system, Nepal One of the chief challenges in the coming decades will be to capture and store excess water during periods of high water availability. We are likely to experience more extreme melting, as well as extreme events of ra...

By Lawrence Hislop

Himalayas Over half of the world’s population lives in watersheds of major rivers originating in mountains with glaciers and snow. A warming climate is now causing a global recession in glaciers, and some areas may lose thei...

By Lawrence Hislop

Meat drying, Nepal By 2050, as projected by FAO, global cereal production needs to be around 3000 million tonnes in order to meet demand. However, some estimates suggest that due to environmental degradation in the watersheds, flood...

By Lawrence Hislop

Crop in Nepal Downstream impacts of changes in water flow from high mountain glaciers may affect different aspects of human livelihoods. The agricultural and food production systems will be affected by water stress. UNDP (2006) ...

By Lawrence Hislop

township nearby the Himalayas Pakistan has one of the largest man-made contiguous irrigation systems in the Indus basin which is based on the water available from the Indus River and its tributaries. Part of the Indus river flow is provided by glacia...

By Lawrence Hislop

Township in Nepal Flash floods pose a serious threat to people in mountain regions and have severe downstream effects. In contrast to most glacial lake outburst floods which occur in sparsely populated high mountain regions, a large p...

By Lawrence Hislop

agricultural land around the Himalyas Climate change scenarios for the next about 50 years project higher temperatures in the high Himalayas resulting in more rapid melting of the glaciers which are an important source of water of the Pakistani river...

By Lawrence Hislop

Himalayan river bridge Impacts of the shrinkage and disappearance of mountain glaciers include changes in the flow characteristics of glacierfed rivers, glacier lake outburst floods (GLOFs) in the Andes and Asia, and changing flood severit...

By Lawrence Hislop

Agricultural land, Nepal Changes in glacier regimes and runoff from snow and ice, combined with changes in precipitation timing and intensity will most likely increase human vulnerability in many areas. Livelihoods are affected as climat...

By Lawrence Hislop

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