The British government launched on Monday a club of 20 of the country’s largest pension funds to try to drum up coordinated backing for local infrastructure, as major pension funds pledged 2.6 billion ...

Parts of North America are poised to become “hotspots of water scarcity” within decades, partly because pollutants will make some water sources harder to use, scientists warned on Tuesday, urging ...

Securing the world's water supply is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Researchers are now presenting an alternative method for quantifying the global risk of water scarcity. Results ...

When people feel that their resources are scarce -- that they don't have enough money or time to meet their needs -- they often make decisions that favor short-term gains over long-term benefits.

What effect does climate change have on food scarcity in the U.S. and abroad? NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Tim Searchinger, a researcher on energy and the environment. So a question popped into our ...

A new study published in the journal Nature Communications by researchers from the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP) at Pusan National University in the Republic of Korea reveals that global ...