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The Inequity of Water: While Scarcity Is Felt Locally, its Causes Are Increasingly Global

  • Freshwater
  • agriculture
  • Water Security
  • food security
Amhara farmers carrying corn crop near Lake Tana Biosphere Reserve.
  • Freshwater
  • agriculture
  • Water Security
  • food security
Insights

What Is Kelp and Why Is it Vital to People and the Planet?

  • climate change
  • Climate
  • Freshwater
  • Ocean
Fish feed on a kelp forest in the ocean
  • climate change
  • Climate
  • Freshwater
  • Ocean

Restoring a Degraded Ethiopian Watershed for Water and Livelihood Security

  • food security
  • agriculture
  • poverty
  • Climate Equity
  • Freshwater
This view of the degraded Minzir 01 watershed shows evident signs of gully formation and low stream flow.
  • food security
  • agriculture
  • poverty
  • Climate Equity
  • Freshwater
Research

Better Forests, Better Cities

Cityscape behind lush forest.
Initiatives

Systems Change Lab

Person in crowd holding sign that reads "SYSTEM CHANGE NOT CLIMATE CHANGE" with Earth image on cardboard sign.
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5 Keys to a Climate-resilient Recovery After COVID-19

  • Climate
  • adaptation finance
  • Climate Resilience
  • Water Security
  • food security
  • climate impacts
A farmer standing in a flooded field.
  • Climate
  • adaptation finance
  • Climate Resilience
  • Water Security
  • food security
  • climate impacts
Technical Perspectives

INSIDER: Mainstreaming Climate Adaptation into Development: Three Lessons from Kenya

  • Climate Resilience
  • adaptation finance
  • Water Security
  • drought
  • agriculture
  • Climate
  • food security
Herders in Kenya.
  • Climate Resilience
  • adaptation finance
  • Water Security
  • drought
  • agriculture
  • Climate
  • food security

Nature-Based Flood Mitigation Can Help Mississippi River Farmers

  • Aqueduct
  • floods
  • agriculture
  • food security
  • Freshwater
  • water risk
Flooding in the Upper Mississippi River Basin
  • Aqueduct
  • floods
  • agriculture
  • food security
  • Freshwater
  • water risk
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This Month in Climate Science, December 2019: Pre-term Births, Fewer Fishermen and Accelerated Arctic Melt

  • this month in climate science
  • climate science
  • biodiversity
  • climate change
  • greenhouse gases
  • health
  • Ocean
  • Freshwater
Two fishermen offloading lobster from their boat onto a floating dock in Maine.
  • this month in climate science
  • climate science
  • biodiversity
  • climate change
  • greenhouse gases
  • health
  • Ocean
  • Freshwater
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Water Is a Growing Source of Global Conflict. Here's What We Need to Do

  • Water Security
  • food security
  • Freshwater
  • water risk
A man carries water for cooking, drinking and washing in East Timor.
  • Water Security
  • food security
  • Freshwater
  • water risk

127 Countries Now Regulate Plastic Bags. Why Aren't We Seeing Less Pollution?

  • Sustainable Development Goal 14
  • Ocean
  • pollution
  • Freshwater
plastic bag pollution
  • Sustainable Development Goal 14
  • Ocean
  • pollution
  • Freshwater

STATEMENT: Fourth National Climate Assessment Confirms Climate Change Will Affect All Regions and All Sectors of U.S. Economy

  • Air Quality
  • Water Security
  • fires
  • climate science
  • natural infrastructure
  • Climate Resilience
  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • health
  • climate impacts
  • water pollution
  • pollution
  • sea level rise
  • Ocean
  • Air Quality
  • Water Security
  • fires
  • climate science
  • natural infrastructure
  • Climate Resilience
  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • health
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  • water pollution
  • pollution
  • sea level rise
  • Ocean
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Bad Air to Better Oceans: 6 Environment and Development Stories to Watch in 2018

  • Equity & Governance
  • Finance
  • Ocean
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Cities
  • Business
  • Economics
  • Aqueduct
  • stories to watch
  • Air Quality
  • climate change
  • restoration
  • international climate policy
  • fossil fuels
  • pollution
  • UNFCCC
  • U.S. policy
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  • Cities
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  • international climate policy
  • fossil fuels
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  • UNFCCC
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  • water risk
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Water Stress is Helping Drive Conflict and Migration

  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • drought
  • Aqueduct
  • food security
sahel-food-crisis
  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • drought
  • Aqueduct
  • food security
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Careers at WRI

  • Forests
  • Food
  • Freshwater
  • Ocean
  • Business
  • Equity & Governance
  • Forests
  • Food
  • Freshwater
  • Ocean
  • Business
  • Equity & Governance
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Sustainable Diets: What You Need to Know in 12 Charts

  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • Food
  • food security
  • Freshwater
grocery store
  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • Food
  • food security
  • Freshwater
News

RELEASE: WRI offers new approach to help move billions to more sustainable diets

  • Climate-Friendly Diets
  • land use
  • deforestation
  • agriculture
  • Food
  • food security
  • GHG emissions
  • natural resources
  • Freshwater
  • Climate-Friendly Diets
  • land use
  • deforestation
  • agriculture
  • Food
  • food security
  • GHG emissions
  • natural resources
  • Freshwater

Protect Wildlife, Save Oceans and Reduce Civic Unrest—With Data

  • Ocean
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • data
  • environmental democracy
  • low carbon development
Global Fishing Watch uses satellite data to track fishing vessels around the world in near-real time. Image by Global Fishing Watch
  • Ocean
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • data
  • environmental democracy
  • low carbon development
Insights

In Order to Solve Pollution, We Must First Solve Governance Challenges

  • Environmental Rights
  • Equity & Governance
  • environmental democracy
  • Air Quality
  • pollution
  • Freshwater
  • water risk
Air pollution in China's Shaanxi Province. Photo by Gilad Rom/Flickr
  • Environmental Rights
  • Equity & Governance
  • environmental democracy
  • Air Quality
  • pollution
  • Freshwater
  • water risk
Silhouettes of children playing swing in turbine wind park at sunset