Reports, Articles etc
Here you can find links to written resources on climate change, water systems, and related impacts on people. Plus, down the page, an archive of media stories related to these themes. (For audiovisual resources, see here, for teaching aids see here).
ON BOLIVIA/LATIN AMERICA
- Impact of climate change in Andean Bolivian communities that depend on tropical glaciers (Agua Sustentable)
- Short pamphlet on human rights of glacier-dependent Bolivian indigenous communities (Agua Sustentable)
- Changing the Flow: Water Movements in Latin America (Collaborative report 2009)
GENERAL RESEARCH
- Archive of resources on water and climate change (South Africa-based Environmental Monitoring Group)
- Climate Change and Water – IPCC Technical Paper VI (International Panel on Climate Change)
- Useful backgrounders on the impacts of climate on water resources (US Environment Protection Agency – EPA)
- Find out more about the EPA’s strategy for responding to climate change (EPA)
- The Tree Resources – Extreme Weather (The Tree)
- The Tree Resources – Sea Level Rise (The Tree)
- The Tree Resources – Climate Science (The Tree)
- Global Warming – An Introduction to Climate Change (US-focused resources from Natural Resources Defense Council)
- Cities and Climate Change: An Urgent Agenda (World Bank)
- Basic backgrounder (inc video) on ‘what is climate change‘ (UK Met Office)
- List of all IPCC Publications (International Panel on Climate Change)
- State of the Climate 2012 report (American Meteorological Society) - plus see the accompanying press release from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Interactive Arctic sea ice graph (National Snow and Ice Data Center)
- Archive of resources related to climate change and migration, including a section on Latin America (UK Climate Change and Migration Coalition)
Media Stories on Climate Change, Water and Vulnerability
Full archive of global warming and climate change reporting from the New York Times
Full archive of climate change reporting from the Guardian
Check the Further Reading section on the Climate Crises Worldwide page
- Why Global Water Shortages Pose Threat of Terror and War - Guardian, 9th February 2014
- Climate Change: Drought will be Frequent and Severe Across Europe by 2100 – IBTimes, 9th January 2014
- Climate Change Could Put One-Fifth Of World’s Population In Severe Water Shortage - Climate Progress, 3rd January 2014
- Water scarcity ‘biggest concern’ of climate change - edieWater, 2nd January 2014
- Water Risk as World Warms - Nature, 31st December 2013
- Ban Ki-moon: World on course to run out of water (incs. video) - RTCC, 23rd May 2013
- Global majority faces water shortages ‘within two generations’ – Guardian, 24th May 2013
- Experts surer of manmade global warming but local predictions elusive - Reuters, 16th August 2013
- If extreme weather becomes the norm, starvation awaits - George Monbiot, Guardian, 16th October 2012
- The Battle for Water – India’s food insecurity compounded by water scarcity - Reuters AlertNet, 16th October 2012
- 2012 Saw Warmest September On Record Across The Globe, Says NOAA - Huffington Post, 15th October 2012
- Climate Change Equals Culture Change in the Andes - Scientific American, 9th October 2009
- Glaciers go, leaving drought conflict and tension in Andes - Daily Climate, 19th May 2009