<ul class="summary-list"><li>Manchin has expressed concern about future generations having to pay down the national debt.</li><li>But he risks handing them bigger problems by blocking <keyword id="12002886" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="climate" source="Orion">climate</keyword> spending in <keyword id="11893699" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="congress" source="Orion">Congress</keyword>.</li></ul><p>Last week, Sen. <keyword id="11930702" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="joe-manchin" source="Orion">Joe Manchin</keyword> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/wapo-manchin-wont-support-new-climate-spending-tax-hikes-2022-7">efficiently killed off part</a> of <keyword id="11896865" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="democrats" source="Orion">Democrats</keyword>' agenda — a move he's pulled before as one of the two key centrist votes upholding Democrats' razor-thin majority.</p><p>This time, Democrats saw tax hikes on the wealthy and spending on climate measures slip away for the second time in less than a year. It's fueling anger among activists pressing for aggressive action to confront the climate emergency.</p><p>"Senator Manchin, for close to two years now, has been wavering the fate of human survival and the safety of our communities over our heads, like a bone to starving dogs," John Paul Mejia, the national spokesperson for climate activist group the Sunrise Movement, told Insider. "Frankly, the latest attempt to gut any climate spending from a once in a generation reconciliation bill is part of the same strategy that he's always been playing with." </p><p>Manchin's resistance has a lot to do with high inflation numbers, something he's been particularly focused on as negotiations drag on. He's now "cautious" about any potential spending that could drive prices higher. Instead, he wants to focus on slashing the cost of prescription drugs and renewing an expiring financial assistance program under the Affordable Care Act.</p><p>Another one of Manchin's chief priorities is shrinking the national debt. It's not a new position for him, and he has long warned against imposing a huge economic burden on future generations.</p><p>"Adding trillions of dollars more to nearly $29 trillion of national debt, without any consideration of the negative effects on our children and grandchildren, is one of those decisions that has become far too easy in Washington," Manchin said in a <a href="https://www.manchin.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/manchin-raises-serious-concerns-about-35-trillion-budget">statement</a> last summer.</p><p>But scientists warn that <a href="https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/">not acting on climate change could bring far more dire consequences</a> to future generations. "What I would ask him is how could you look at your grandchildren in the eye without feeling any disgust for yourself, your moral bankruptcy, and your decisions," Meija said.</p><p>The consequences of a warming climate are growing more apparent. Swaths of Europe and the United States <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/heat-waves-are-dominating-summer-and-its-not-abnormal-anymore-2022-7">are experiencing heatwaves</a>. In France, Portugal and Spain, record-breaking temperatures are triggering destructive <keyword id="11898861" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="wildfires" source="Orion">wildfires</keyword> prompting thousands of people to flee their homes.</p><p>"Climate change is no longer a chart or a graph happening in some far off future. It's the smoke in our lungs, it's the heat waves happening now in communities across America and our globe," Jamal Raad, the co-founder and executive director of Evergreen Action, told Insider.</p><p>"The fact that Congress has failed to act and Senator Manchin almost singularly torpedoed our last best shot at climate investments is disastrous, and it will be his legacy," Raad continued.</p><h2>America is more worried about the <keyword id="11893570" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="economy" source="Orion">economy</keyword> than the climate</h2><p>Manchin's sentiments do align with how Americans are feeling.</p><p>In January 2022, <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2022/02/16/publics-top-priority-for-2022-strengthening-the-nations-economy/">Pew Research Center asked</a> 5,128 American adults about their top concerns for the year. A whopping 71% — the highest percentage for one cause — said strengthening the economy should be a top priority for the president and Congress, with 61% saying that reducing health care costs should be a top priority. </p><p>Meanwhile, just 42% said climate change. In 2021, Gen Zers <a href="https://www2.deloitte.com/global/en/pages/about-deloitte/articles/millennialsurvey-2021.html">surveyed by Deloitte said</a> that climate change was their top concern. In 2022, <a href="https://www2.deloitte.com/global/en/pages/about-deloitte/articles/genzmillennialsurvey.html">that shifted to cost of living</a> — followed by climate change.</p><p>But <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/gen-z-climate-activists-biden-climate-change-school-strike-2021-4#isaac-vergun-co-founder-of-youth-acting-for-our-earth-17">Isaac Vergun</a>, 20, said that "we really cannot afford any sort of inaction" right now. Vergun has been a climate activist since he was 13, and is a plaintiff in <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/1/17/21070810/climate-change-lawsuit-juliana-vs-us-our-childrens-trust-9th-circuit">Juliana v. US</a>, a 2015 lawsuit brought by 21 kids — who were ages 8 to 19 – claiming that the government violated their constitutional rights through exacerbating the climate crisis.</p><p>If you asked Vergun five years ago how pulling back spending on climate would impact his future, "I would've been a little disappointed, but I would've been a little optimistic and seen the silver lining that we still got quite a few years until some serious catastrophic irreversible climate changes started."</p><p>Now, though, "we are currently living through the climate crisis — and just the tip of the iceberg of it."</p><h2>Cost of living is a big issue, but the climate crisis will make it worse</h2><p>While Manchin is focusing on a right-now economic issue, the climate crisis has already taken an economic toll — and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/climate-change-crisis-heat-dome-condo-collapse-nyc-floods-infrastructure-2021-7">that will only get worse</a>. </p><p>NOAA <a href="https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/">estimates</a> that weather and climate disasters have cost the country over $2.275 trillion since 1980. In 2022 alone, there's been nine disaster events — higher than the average year — that cost over $1 billion, and took 8 lives.</p><p>"The climate crisis will bring forward immense economic and human repercussions to this country, and those who are stalling in action on this will be to blame," Meija said. For instance, persistently high gas prices, a symptom of Americans' dependence on climate-busting fossil fuels, are driving inflation, and taking a big chunk out of workers' wallets.</p><p>"The solution to this should be not to have an economy dependent on the whims of fossil fuels anymore, which are incredibly volatile resources that aren't good for our planet, and aren't good for the pockets of regular working class people," Meija said.</p><p>President <keyword id="99719" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="joe-biden" source="Orion">Joe Biden</keyword>, who's already seen Manchin shelve his agenda once, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-gives-manchin-urges-democrats-to-advance-healthcare-without-climate-2022-7">seemed to give in to the ultimatum</a>. In a statement on Friday, Biden said Congress should move forward on the prescription drugs legislation before the August recess.</p><p>"Let me be clear: if the Senate will not move to tackle the climate crisis and strengthen our domestic clean energy industry, I will take strong executive action to meet this moment," Biden said.</p><p>It seems like Manchin has won again.</p><p>"Your legacy is being written as the man who burned the earth," Meija said.</p>

Joe Manchin blocked climate spending so the national debt won't crush his grandkids. His legacy risks handing them much bigger problems.

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP</span></p><p class="caption">Beach goers wade in the surf at Natural Bridges State Beach on October 19, 2016, in Santa Cruz, California.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><ul class="summary-list"><li>As sea levels continue to rise, California's beaches are threatened by erosion.</li><li>Communities such as Santa Cruz are feeling these effects particularly hard because beaches are central to their economy and culture.</li><li>Gary Griggs, a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, told The Guardian that the main beach in Santa Cruz is likely to disappear. </li><li>Santa Cruz officials will use a $360,000 grant from the California Department of Transportation to find solutions to beach erosion.</li></ul><p>Climate change is accelerating the erosion of a large chunk of California's beaches, and the effects are especially troubling for communities like Santa Cruz, whose famous surfing beaches and a <a href="https://beachboardwalk.com/history">111-year-old oceanfront boardwalk</a> are central to the city's economy and culture.</p><p><span>Gary Griggs, a professor of earth sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/11/santa-cruz-sinking-climate-change-beaches-surfing">told The Guardian</a> that the city's main beach is likely to vanish due to rising sea levels. </span></p><p>"I think with every coastal road in California, you're going have to think about relocating it," Griggs told The Guardian.</p><p><span>More than 70 buildings in Santa Cruz are threatened by flooding in the next 12 years, as sea levels are expected to rise by 4 inches, <a href="http://www.cityofsantacruz.com/home/showdocument?id=63040">according to a city climate plan</a>. Seven miles of road, 390 residential properties, and 65 commercial places are at risk of flooding by the end of the century.</span></p><p><span>Workers in Santa Cruz are trying to stop West Cliff Drive, an upscale waterfront street, from disappearing, and piles of rocks have been dumped by the cliffs beneath the road to help stop the erosion. West Cliff Drive, which forms two-thirds of the city's 4.5-mile beachfront, </span><span>is home to lavish villas, many worth more than $2 million.</span></p><p><span>"West Cliff Drive is our cherished road, it's our treasure chest, and every winter we can see the whole cliff is becoming more unstable," Nick Muchas, who has lived in Santa Cruz for over a decade, told The Guardian. "When the surf and spray comes over it, I'd say it's treacherous."</span></p><p><span>Officials and residents are grappling with the possibility of abandoning parts of Santa Cruz if efforts to curb the effects of climate change prove unsuccessful. For now, Santa Cruz is focusing on West Cliff Drive and <a href="https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2018/08/17/city-of-santa-cruz-finalizes-updated-climate-adaptation-plan/">will use</a> a $360,000 grant from the California Department of Transportation to find solutions for the beach erosion.</span></p><p><span>The problem stretches beyond Santa Cruz: </span><span>The city is located at the top of Monterey Bay, which loses several feet of beach each year. California's government <a href="http://www.climateassessment.ca.gov/state/docs/20180827-StatewideSummary.pdf">released a report</a> in August stating that as much as two-thirds of the state's southern beaches will erode by the end of the 21st century unless significant changes are implemented.</span></p><p><span>California communities face additional difficulties as well, as climate change is causing <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/california-fires-season-maps-charts-2018-8">long wildfire seasons</a> and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/r-records-broken-as-heat-wave-bakes-southern-california-2018-7">dangerous heatwaves</a> in the state.</span></p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-caffeine-does-body-brain-2017-3">Here's what caffeine does to your body and brain</a></h3>        <div>                    </div>    </div>

One of California's most famous surf towns is threatened by rising sea levels that could overtake beaches and million-dollar homes

<p class="drop-cap">With mild winters, plenty of open space, and endless opportunities for outdoor recreation, it's easy to see why <keyword id="11918419" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="colorado" source="Orion">Colorado</keyword> is one of the fastest-growing states in the US.</p><p>"We were tired of having to spend nine winter months indoors without the sun," Ashley O'Connor, who moved to Colorado from Chicago in 2015, told Insider. "We like to joke that we traded skyscrapers for mountains."</p><p>O'Connor and her husband are hardly alone. According to <a href="https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/08/more-than-half-of-united-states-counties-were-smaller-in-2020-than-in-2010.html">census data</a>, Colorado was one of the fastest-growing states from 2010 to 2020, increasing its population by nearly 15%. Colorado real estate has also been booming for years and experienced an even greater boost during the pandemic as <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/colorado-quarantine-location-rich-americans-millennials-urban-exodus-agents-2020-08">urbanites ditched cities for less crowded spaces</a>.</p><p>But one of the state's biggest draws - abundant access to the <keyword id="11994969" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="outdoors" source="Orion">outdoors</keyword> - is under threat.</p><p>The air in Colorado is getting dirtier, resulting in more days where haze obscures the mountains and when public health officials say it's unsafe to be outside, let alone do something active.</p><p>"For the last three months, three out of four days were <keyword id="11977673" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="air-quality" source="Orion">air quality</keyword> alerts," Frank Flocke, a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, told Insider in mid-September. "We just had a clear day for the first time for weeks, where you could actually see the mountains."</p><div type="image" title="A hazy view of the downtown Denver skyline from Sloan Lake in Denver, Colorado on Tuesday, August 3, 2021." height="2670" width="3561" msid="86713009" hostid="261"></div><p>Ozone pollution and wildfire smoke are largely responsible for obscuring the view of the Rocky Mountains, an increasingly common sight in Colorado, according to Flocke.</p><p>This summer, Colorado public health officials <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BHUei0iDaE2EvSIrD4KAN9xy9mQQWhLDAgZtA1iFSl4/edit#gid=0">issued an ozone alert every day</a> from July 5 to August 14, marking a 41-day stretch of air quality warnings. The state issued <a href="https://www.cpr.org/2021/08/25/front-range-air-quality-ozone-wildfire-smoke/">65 ozone action day alerts</a> from June through August, more than any year since 2016, when the current ozone standard was set.</p><h2>'Hazy, smoky mountain ranges have become a bit of a regular sight'</h2><p>For longtime residents, the change in air quality, and the impact it's had on their outdoor life, is evident.</p><p>"Honestly, it's heartbreaking," Susanna Joy, who has lived in Colorado most of her life, told Insider. "Those of us that are from here have noticed a really big shift in our ability to enjoy life how we grew up."</p><p>Joy said she grew up outdoors and remains an avid hiker who loves camping and being outside as much as possible. She said air quality and <keyword id="11898861" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="wildfires" source="Orion">wildfires</keyword> weren't even on her radar growing up, a stark difference from recent years.</p><p>"I never thought about air quality when I was planning outdoor adventures and now it's something that we look at consistently," Joy said.</p><p>Now, she gets an email every morning from a local newspaper that tells her the air quality for that day, so she can decide if she even wants to think about doing something outside.</p><p>"There's been multiple times where we're planning a 40-mile bike ride and we just don't do it because the air quality is too bad or it's too hot," she said.</p><p>Checking in on air quality has become a daily part of many Coloradoans' lives. The air quality index, or AQI - a tool used by government agencies to convey to the public how safe the air is on any given day - has become as common a discussion point as which 14er, or mountain peak higher than 14,000 feet, is hardest to hike to.</p><p>Even for recent transplants, the change is palpable, according to O'Connor, who lives in the Rockies in Summit County, home to some of the state's most popular ski resorts, like Breckenridge and Keystone.</p><p>Being outside "isn't just about hobbies, it is a way of life," O'Connor said. She loves to ski, bike, take her sailboat out on the Dillon Reservoir, and hike the many trails located minutes from her home.</p><p>But the "hazy, smoky mountain ranges have become a bit of a regular sight since moving here," she said. "Not only has it affected the amount of time we are willing to spend outdoors, but how we spend it."</p><p>O'Connor said she and her husband even wake up sometimes with "red, burning, itchy eyes" and congestion due to the poor air quality.</p><div type="image" title="The sky is illuminated as the sun sets behind the Rocky Mountain Thursday, Sept. 10, 2021, in Denver." height="3744" width="4992" msid="86713010" hostid="261"></div><h2>The culprits: 'A product of our own doing'</h2><p>Ozone is the primary pollutant taking a toll on Colorado's air, according to Flocke.</p><p>Colorado has some of the worst ozone pollution of anywhere in the US. In 2019, the <a href="https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-reclassifies-denver-area-serious-nonattainment-ozone">Environmental Protection Agency</a> reclassified the Denver area as a "serious" violator of federal air quality standards. The agency gave the state until July of this year to get the ozone pollution under control, but that deadline <a href="https://coloradonewsline.com/2021/07/21/denver-area-again-misses-deadline-to-meet-epa-air-quality-standards/">came and went</a>.</p><p>Ozone is a naturally occurring and man-made gas found in Earth's atmosphere. High-altitude ozone, like that found in the ozone layer, protects the planet by absorbing UV rays from the sun. Ground-level ozone, on the other hand, is emitted by things like cars, chemical plants, and oil and gas refineries, and enters the air we breathe.</p><p>Flocke said ozone pollution is "mainly a product of our own doing," calling transportation of people and goods and the oil and gas industry the "elephants in the room" when it comes to cutting ozone emissions.</p><p>A <a href="https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2019JD031197">2019 study</a> co-authored by Flocke found the fossil fuel and transportation sectors were the major contributors to ozone on Colorado's front range.</p><div type="image" title="Bumper to bumper traffic on Interstate 70 in Colorado, a familiar scene on the main highway connecting Denver to the mountains." height="4084" width="5446" msid="86713011" hostid="261"></div><p>The millions of recent Colorado transplants aren't helping the problem, as the increase in population and traffic only causes those emissions to rise.</p><p>Breathing ozone can lead to serious health effects, according to the <a href="https://www.epa.gov/ozone-pollution-and-your-patients-health/health-effects-ozone-general-population">EPA</a>, including coughing, throat irritation, chest pain, and shortness of breath, as well as longer-lasting issues like declining lung function. There is also strong evidence linking higher ozone levels with asthma attacks, increased hospitalizations, and increased mortality.</p><p>Sensitive groups, including older people, children, and people with respiratory issues are especially at risk, but high ozone levels can trigger symptoms even for people who aren't at higher risk.</p><h2>'The fires make everything worse'</h2><p>Those impacts are only magnified by the other pollutant permeating Colorado's air: fine particulate matter from wildfires. Particulate matter, or PM pollution, refers to tiny particles found in the air that are so small they can be inhaled when breathing.</p><p>"The fires make everything worse because they add the particles to the ozone," Flocke said. </p><p>The particles emitted from wildfires can get deep into the lungs and even the bloodstream, according to the <a href="https://www.epa.gov/pm-pollution/health-and-environmental-effects-particulate-matter-pm">EPA</a>. Studies have linked PM to premature deaths in people with heart or lung disease, heart attacks, decreased lung function, and respiratory problems.</p><p>Even in years when Colorado has a relatively mild wildfire season, like this year, the state still deals with dangerous levels of PM blown in from other parts of the West. This year, fires in California and Oregon brought hazy, smoky days all the way to Colorado.</p><div type="image" title="Smoke from the Grizzly Creek Fire blankets Glenwood Canyon and Interstate 70 on August 26, 2020 in Glenwood Springs, Colorado." height="2682" width="3577" msid="86713013" hostid="261"></div><p>"They made a lot of the days multiple pollutant warning days, where you had ozone exceed the standard and particulates exceed the standard at the same time," Flocke said. "For people that are sensitive to pollution, that really makes it hard to be outside and enjoy life."</p><p>Flocke said the issue is worsened by the fact that the meteorological conditions that prevent the local ozone from being flushed out by cold fronts are the same conditions that bring in the wildfire smoke from the coast.</p><h2>'If we tackle the climate problem, we will slowly also tackle our air quality problem'</h2><p>The impact of wildfires on Colorado's air quality is unlikely to let up so long as the climate continues to warm, according to Russ Schumacher, director of the Colorado Climate Center at Colorado State University.</p><p>"Many studies, going back 10 to 15 years, have projected that the amount of acreage burned of wildfires in the West was going to increase as the climate warms," he told Insider. "We're starting to see that now."</p><p>Schumacher said the wildfires aren't solely due to <keyword id="11896311" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="climate-change" source="Orion">climate change</keyword>, but that climate change and the related droughts and heatwaves have set the stage for these big fires.</p><p>Climate change and air quality are "intimately connected," according to Flocke: "Our lifestyle causes emissions of CO2, which exacerbate climate change, which exacerbate the fires, which exacerbate our air quality problems."</p><div type="image" title="Denver Skyline as seen from the Cherry Creek Dam road in Denver, Colorado on April 30, 2015." height="2660" width="3546" msid="86713014" hostid="261"></div><p>But, he said, both crises could be addressed in Colorado with many of the same actions. Enacting tighter regulations on oil and gas emissions, improving public transportation, and disincentivizing driving would all help cut greenhouse gas emissions and other air pollutants.</p><p>"If we tackle the climate problem, we will slowly also tackle our air quality problem," Flocke said, adding that the solutions are "clear" but that there needs to be political will to actually implement them.</p><p>He said the increase in awareness about air quality, partly driven by the wildfires and climate change, could result in a greater push for change. The many transplants moving to the state could have a positive impact on that as well.</p><p>"People move to Colorado because they have this idea that we have clean mountain air," he said. "Maybe they will be more susceptible to accept stricter regulations."</p><p>Joy echoed those sentiments, saying she's "hopeful that this isn't just how summer is now, because I enjoyed summer so much as a kid."</p><p>While she personally tries to minimize her impact on emissions, she said she's also trying to come to terms with the fact that "until we make some big changes that help us reduce the impact that we're having overall, it's not going to change. It's going to continue to amplify."</p><p><em>Have a <keyword id="11893589" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="news" source="Orion">news</keyword> tip? Contact this reporter at </em><a href="mailto:kvlamis@insider.com?inline-read-more"><em>kvlamis@insider.com</em></a><em>.</em></p>

People are flocking to Colorado for the great outdoors, but air pollution is leading to more days when residents are stuck inside

<p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>A team of designers has put forward a proposal for an iceberg-making submarine that could produce 82-foot-wide, 16-foot-thick chunks of ice.</li><li>The concept could be a way to combat <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/un-report-devastating-arctic-temperature-rise-locked-in-2019-3">sea-level rise</a> and replace <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/photos-dog-sled-melted-greenland-sea-ice-2019-6">ice that's melting</a> at Earth's poles.</li><li>But some scientists point out that the idea wouldn't directly address the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/greenland-approaching-threshold-of-irreversible-melting-2019-1">melting of land ice</a> that <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/antarctic-glacier-on-way-to-irreversible-melt-2019-7">causes sea-level rise</a>, much less the root problem of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/food-system-role-in-climate-crisis-possible-solutions-2019-8">greenhouse-gas emissions</a>.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul><p>Running out of ice? Make some more.</p><p>That's the idea behind a new&#xa0; proposal for a submarine that could freeze seawater to create new icebergs. The concept, created by a team of designers from Indonesia, <a href="https://www.asacompetition.com/results-all/re-freeze-the-arctic">won second place</a> in an international design competition through the Association of Siamese Architects.&#xa0;</p><p>The goal of the submarine is to replace sea ice as it melts, inspired by efforts to tackle rainforest loss by planting trees.&#xa0;</p><p>"If we could cover more polar surfaces again with ice, it would certainly prevent the absorption of heat by the oceans, which would also affect global temperatures," team leader and <a href="https://issuu.com/fariskota/docs/faris_rajak_kotahatuhaha_-_portfoli">architect</a> Faris Rajak Kotahatuhaha told Business Insider in an email. "The ultimate goal is to respond [to] sea level rise with the different way of thinking."</p><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div><p>Melting ice is certainly a problem in need of a solution: Greenland saw record ice melt last month, and Antarctica is losing ice <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/artificial-snow-could-stop-antarctica-from-melting-2019-7">faster than ever in recorded history</a>. Both <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/greenland-approaching-threshold-of-irreversible-melting-2019-1">Greenland's ice sheet</a> and one of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/antarctic-glacier-on-way-to-irreversible-melt-2019-7">Antarctica's biggest glaciers</a> are approaching a threshold of irreversible melting.</p><p>If they were to collapse, rising seas would <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/sea-level-rise-could-swamp-new-york-shanghai-2019-5">swallow coastal cities</a>.</p><h2>A submarine that births 'ice babies'</h2><p>According to the team's design, the ice-making submarine would dip below the ocean surface to fill with seawater, then rise back to the surface and close the hatch to its hexagon-shaped well. A process of reverse osmosis would then <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/solar-powered-device-turns-salt-water-into-fresh-drinking-water-2019-7">filter salt out of the water</a> so that it could freeze faster.</p><p>Then the submarine would dump the concentrated salt back into the sea, while the remaining fresh water would get frozen inside a hexagon-shaped cast surrounded by turbines to insulate it with cold air.</p><p>After a month, the submarine would reopen its top hatch, sink back below the water, and pop out an 82-foot-wide, 16-foot-thick hexagonal ice chunk. The ship could then push that "ice baby," as the team calls it in the below video, next to other hexagonal icebergs to build an ice sheet.</p><p>They call the process "re-iceberg-ization." An <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w64V3R57aE">animated video</a> illustrates the process:</p><p>&#xa0;</p><p>&#xa0;</p><p>But Mark Serreze, director of the University of Colorado's National Snow and Ice Data Center, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/ice-making-submarine-would-pop-out-bergs-replace-dwinding-sea-ncna1039561">told NBC News</a> that he sees the submarine idea as little more than a "Band-Aid."</p><p>"What are you going to do, put out a flotilla of 10,000 submarines?" Serreze said, alluding to the fact that such submarines would have to be deployed on an enormous scale to have any impact on the rate of sea-level rise.</p><p>Michael Mann, a professor of atmospheric sciences at Penn State, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/ice-making-submarine-would-pop-out-bergs-replace-dwinding-sea-ncna1039561">told NBC</a> that the concept is "like trying to save the sand castle you built at the beach using a dixie cup as the tide comes in."&#xa0;</p><h2>More sea ice could help indirectly, if done right&#xa0;</h2><p>To really lower sea levels, the icebergs this proposed submarine could make would have to end up on land, Serreze said. That's because melting sea ice does not directly contribute to sea-level rise, since the ice is already in the ocean regardless of whether it's in liquid or solid form. Melting land ice, however - like glaciers and ice sheets - is the real threat.</p><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div><p>Sea ice does play a crucial role, however, since it reflects more sunlight (and its warmth) away.&#xa0;</p><p>In their video, the Indonesian design team says new sea ice could also help restore polar ecosystems <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/04/arctic-ecosystem-ice-disappear-ecosystem-polar-bears-fish">suffering</a> from the loss of ice habitats.</p><p>"If the ice formed is large and broad enough to reflect more sun, and if global temperatures have become cooler, 'the ice babies' can again be produced as permanent ice on the Arctic," Kotahatuhaha said.</p><p>The submarines could also serve as research centers, living spaces, and hubs of eco-tourism, the team said.</p><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div><h2>Lingering questions about an ice-making submarine</h2><p>Some details about how an ice-making submarine could come to fruition are still unclear.</p><p>"Who's going to build them and how much energy does it take, and how are the submarines powered?" Serreze said.</p><p>Kotahatuhaha said his team still needs to conduct more research and get outside expertise to iron out those details, but he'd want the submarine to be a "zero-emission vehicle" that harnesses power from the sun or tides. If the vessel were powered by fossil fuels, it would contribute to sea-level rise by releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. (The heat those gases trap leads ice to melt and ocean water to expand in volume.)</p><p>Right now, Kotahatuhaha said, he's hoping to build collaborations and study the project's feasibility.&#xa0;</p><p>"The biggest challenge is not about the research itself but investment to support the research project," he said.</p><h2>Geoengineering as a last resort</h2><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div><p>The ice-making submarine is far from the only proposed geoengineering solution to the climate crisis. 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<p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li><strong>Paris recorded an all-time high temperature of 42.6 degrees Celsius (108.6 degrees Fahrenheit) on Thursday, as a blistering heat wave scorched through Europe.&#xa0;</strong></li><li><strong>Météo-France, the nation's meteorological service, said the smoldering temperature recorded around 4:30 p.m. local time was the highest ever measured for the city, breaking the previous record of 40.4 Celsius (104.7 Fahrenheit) in 1947.&#xa0;&#xa0;</strong></li><li><strong>Temperatures also reached new highs across Europe, including in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands.&#xa0;</strong></li><li><strong>The average global temperature in June&#xa0;<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/photo-maps-heawave-june-record-hottest-july-on-earth-predicted-7">soared to its highest level on record</a>, and experts predict that July could follow the same pattern.&#xa0;</strong></li><li><strong><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.</a></strong></li></ul><p>Paris recorded an all-time high temperature of 42.6 degrees Celsius (108.6 degrees Fahrenheit) on Thursday, as a blistering heat wave scorched through Europe.&#xa0;</p><p>Météo-France, the nation's meteorological service, said the smoldering temperature recorded<span> around 4:30 p.m. local time </span>was the highest ever measured for the city, breaking the previous record of <span>40.4 Celsius (104.7 Fahrenheit) in 1947.&#xa0;</span></p><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div><p><span>France's all-time record of 46 degrees Celsius (114.8 degrees Fahrenheit) was set last month in the southern village of Gallargues-le-Montueux, according to <a href="http://www.meteofrance.fr/actualites/74345599-c-est-officiel-on-a-atteint-les-46-c-en-france-en-juin">Météo-France</a>.</span></p><p>Elsewhere in France, temperatures soared above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit), shattering previous records.&#xa0;</p><p>Paris residents cooled off in the fountains of the<span> Trocadéro, across from the Eiffel Tower. Locals told the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/world/europe/heatwave-record-temperatures.html">New York Times</a> on Thursday that bathing in the fountain was a cost-effective way to beat the heat.</span></p><p><span>"Air-conditioners are expensive and consume a lot of energy," 26-year-old Sadio Konte told the Times. "Making the most of fresh and natural places is a smarter solution. And it's free."</span></p><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div><p>Temperatures also reached record highs across Europe.&#xa0;</p><p>According to <a href="https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/scorching-heat-produces-all-time-record-highs-in-belgium-netherlands-as-western-europe-swelters-under-heat-wave/70008886">AccuWeather</a>, Belgium recorded its highest temperature ever on Thursday of&#xa0;<span>40.7 Celsius (105.3 Fahrenheit) in Beitem in the West Flanders province, beating record of 39.9 Celsius (103.8 Fahrenheit) set on Wednesday.</span></p><p>The UK beat its July record temperature of <span>36.7 Celsius (98.1 Fahrenheit) on Thursday, with temperatures measuring in at 38.1 Celsius (100.6 Fahrenheit), <a href="https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/uk-heatwave-all-time-july-temperature-record-to-be-challenged-as-dangerous-heat-builds-into-thursday/70008874">it added</a>.</span></p><p><span>In the Netherlands, temperatures soared above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) for the first time in its history, according to AccuWeather, reaching 41.7 degrees Celsius (107.1 degrees Fahrenheit) in the central village of Deleen.&#xa0;</span></p><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div><p>In Lingen, Germany, <span>a town in Lower Saxony, a new record of 41.5 degrees Celsius (106.7 degrees Fahrenheit) was measured.&#xa0;</span></p><p><span>Record heat has also been observed around the world.</span></p><p><span>The average global temperature in June&#xa0;</span><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/photo-maps-heawave-june-record-hottest-july-on-earth-predicted-7">soared to its highest level on record</a><span>, and experts predict that July could follow the same pattern.</span></p><p><span>Several reports released last week confirmed that June was the hottest month on record, with record-breaking heat recorded throughout the month all around the world, including in Eastern Europe, northern Russia, Asia, Africa, South America, the north Indian Ocean, and across parts of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. </span></p><p><span>The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said in a </span><a href="https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/global-climate-201906">report</a><span> last week that nine of the 10 warmest Junes ever recorded have occurred since 2010.</span></p><p><span>Temperature spikes were particularly noticeable in parts of the Northern Hemisphere, including in Alaska, and in parts of Canada and Russia, where temperatures rose by 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit or higher from average, the report said.</span></p><p>Satellite<span>&#xa0;</span><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/pierre_markuse/sets/72157709588431686/with/48286878936/">images</a><span>&#xa0;</span>posted online showed wildfires burning through huge portions of the Arctic, including Russia, Alaska, and Greenland this week. <span>The&#xa0;</span><a href="https://public.wmo.int/en/media/news/unprecedented-wildfires-arctic">World Meteorological Organization</a><span>&#xa0;warned in a recent report that conditions in the Arctic are "unprecedented," and said&#xa0;climate change and a bout of hot, dry weather has created conditions for wildfires to thrive.</span></p><div></div>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/animation-jfk-speech-moon-apollo-nasa-mission-john-f-kennedy-2016-8">JFK's famous 'we choose to go to the moon' speech will make you believe you can do anything</a></h3>        <div>                    </div>    </div>

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<p>2017 was the third hottest year on record and as temperatures continue to rise some of America's cities are looking for ways to cool down. In Los Angeles, pavement company <a href="https://guardtop.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GuardTop</a> is coating streets white to help combat climate change. Following is a transcript of the video.</p><p><strong>Narrator:</strong> 2017 was the third hottest year on record. And based on recent trends, it's not getting cooler any time soon. Some researchers are asking, how can we stay cool? Especially in our cities. They're typically hotter than rural areas. But why?</p><p>You can thank the urban heat island effect. On hot summer days, roofs, buildings and other urban surfaces can heat up to 90 degrees hotter than the air. This creates islands of heat. One of the biggest contributors to those islands, dark surfaces. Dark surfaces absorb all wavelengths of light and converts them to heat. So the surface gets warm. It's why your mom told you not to wear black during a heatwave. Surface temperatures can reach up to 150 degrees. And since asphalt is an insulator, it traps that heat over the course of the day. Then at night when the air is cooler, the heat radiates away. Lighter surfaces, on the other hand, absorb fewer wavelengths and reflect the rest. That way, all that energy isn't absorbed. And surface temperatures won't rise as much.</p><p>So, would coating our streets white help cool down our cities? Enter Jeff Luzar, he's the Vice President of Sales for GuardTop, a pavement company looking to cool off LA. Their solution? Coat the streets white.</p><p><strong>Jeff Luzar:</strong> We're seeing temperature difference right now of about, anywhere from about nine to 10 degrees, but again, the temperatures are pretty cool outside right now.</p><p><strong>Narrator:</strong> When it's hotter though, Jeff says the pavement could be up to 30 degrees cooler with the white coat.</p><p><strong>Luzar:</strong> Some of the pilot programs that we've done last year with the Bureau of Streets and Services LA City, I know they are, as well as we are, taking a look at the surfaces, making sure they're holding up, making sure they're still doing what we said they were gonna do. And they are. And some of the neighbors are saying they do feel a little difference and this and that. If we can lower the temperatures by the ambient temperature outside by degree or two, it means a lot.</p><p><strong>Narrator:</strong> That may not seem like a lot but a report by the Environmental Protection Agency suggests that a one and half degree change could make a huge difference. Los Angeles could save over $100 million per year in energy savings and smog reductions. But what is the coating made of? Most other pavements use coal tar. Some studies have been done and that where it's showing that it could have some carcinogenic effects. But GuardTop says that its coating is made from recycled materials that don't have carcinogenic additives.</p><p>Of course, LA isn't the only warm city in the world. Other US cities are also considering coating their streets like Las Vegas. But officials there worry that it won't stick due to an oily road mix it uses to combat dry climate. And in New York City, volunteers have painted seven million square feet of rooftops white, but that's only 1% of the potential roof area. It's clear that there's still a lot of work to be done.</p><p><strong>Luzar:</strong> I was never a big climate guy until we started getting into this product but when you see what differences one degree can make in climate change, it makes quite a bit of difference.</p>

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<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>jonah peretti</span></p></div><p></p></div></div>Never say never in digital media.</p><p>For years, BuzzFeed executives preached two things. The digital ad industry <a href="https://sarahtierney.me/2013/03/12/sxsw-content-buzzfeeds-ceo-jonah-peretti-on-viral-content-and-advertising/"><span>needed something better</span></a> than the much maligned <a href="http://adage.com/article/media/q-a-buzzfeed-president-greg-coleman/294487/"><span>banner ad.</span></a> And web ads should be "native." But, there was always the question about whether such hand-crafted ads could scale enough.</p><p><span>That explains <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/buzzfeed-is-finally-embracing-banner-ads-2017-8">BuzzFeed reversing course, and fully embracing programmatic advertising, including highly targeted, data-driven ads and classic banners, as Business Insider reported yesterday.</a></span></p><p><span>To read more about what BuzzFeed's move means for digital publishing, <strong><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/buzzfeed-just-sent-out-a-message-to-the-digital-publishing-business-2017-8">click here.</a></strong></span></p><p><span><strong>In other news:</strong></span></p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-prevents-repeat-offenders-from-buying-ads-to-tackle-fake-news-2017-8"><strong>Here's Facebook's latest move in the war on fake news.</strong></a> The company is banning repeat offenders - pages that repeatedly share stories marked as false - from <keyword id="35666" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="advertising">advertising</keyword> on its platform. </p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/dominos-pizza-delivery-self-driving-car-2017-8"><strong>Domino's is testing a self-driving car to deliver pizza - 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In a town in western <a class="link-text" href="https://www.scmp.com/topics/india"><span class="text">India</span></a>, every conversation involves a possible solution to the crisis.Standing in his brown, dusty field, Narayan Mahale looks at the Wagh river that runs under the cliff on which his field lies, and is convinced the solution is a piped supply of water. Less than 5km away, Ramchandra Mahale believes a dam will suffice. His neighbour, Anita Gaikwad, says the key is to find better ways to harvest rainwater.<br /><br />The villagers in Mokhada, in the Palghar district of India’s western state of Maharashtra, can’t help themselves.<br /><br /><a class="link-text" href="https://cdn.i-scmp.com/sites/default/files/d8/images/methode/2019/07/02/0cd38f20-9be4-11e9-baa5-dd214ed0de8f_image_hires_115323.jpg"></a><a class="link-text" href="https://cdn.i-scmp.com/sites/default/files/d8/images/methode/2019/07/02/0cd38f20-9be4-11e9-baa5-dd214ed0de8f_image_hires_115323.jpg"></a><a class="link-text" href="https://cdn.i-scmp.com/sites/default/files/d8/images/methode/2019/07/02/0cd38f20-9be4-11e9-baa5-dd214ed0de8f_image_hires_115323.jpg"></a><a class="link-text" href="https://cdn.i-scmp.com/sites/default/files/d8/images/methode/2019/07/02/0cd38f20-9be4-11e9-baa5-dd214ed0de8f_image_hires_115323.jpg"><br />Farmer Narayan Mahale can see the river, now drying, flowing past through the year. But that water often does not reach him. Photo: Kunal Purohit<br /></a><br />This region is facing a crushing <keyword id="68552" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="water-scarcity">water scarcity</keyword>. Dominated mostly by tribal hamlets, Mokhada is underdeveloped – it has a literacy rate that is two-thirds lower than the national rate of 74 per cent; it sees hundreds of children dying each year due to poor nourishment and health care facilities.<br /><br />Very few villages have any piped supply of water. As a result, many of them have to depend on common wells. But last year’s scarce rainfall meant that many village wells ran dry by January this year.<br /><br />It isn’t just Palghar alone; 43 per cent of India is gripped by a severe drought, being abnormally to exceptionally dry.<br /><a class="link-text" href="https://cdn.i-scmp.com/sites/default/files/d8/images/methode/2019/07/02/3e6424e0-9bef-11e9-baa5-dd214ed0de8f_image_hires_115323.jpg"></a><a class="link-text" href="https://cdn.i-scmp.com/sites/default/files/d8/images/methode/2019/07/02/3e6424e0-9bef-11e9-baa5-dd214ed0de8f_image_hires_115323.jpg"></a><a class="link-text" href="https://cdn.i-scmp.com/sites/default/files/d8/images/methode/2019/07/02/3e6424e0-9bef-11e9-baa5-dd214ed0de8f_image_hires_115323.jpg"></a><a class="link-text" href="https://cdn.i-scmp.com/sites/default/files/d8/images/methode/2019/07/02/3e6424e0-9bef-11e9-baa5-dd214ed0de8f_image_hires_115323.jpg"><br />Map of the areas facing drought in India. Graphic: SCMP</a><br /><br />But Mokhada’s drought carries a heavy and almost tragic sense of irony. It is not a dry region; five rivers originate here. The region generally sees over 2,400 millimetres of rainfall a year. But instead of providing for the locals, much of the water is diverted to Mumbai – which gets a major chunk of its water from here – along with other cities and industrial corridors.<br /><br />The scarcity can turn fatal. In April 2012, a woman died from the exertion of trying to fetch water. In addition, the hilly terrain in the region means the rainwater does not percolate but instead, slides off down the valley into the rivers.<br /><br />Locals are left with the hard choice of staring at rivers flowing past, even as they struggle for each drop.<br /><a class="link-text" href="https://cdn.i-scmp.com/sites/default/files/d8/images/methode/2019/07/02/5d2d5df2-9be4-11e9-baa5-dd214ed0de8f_image_hires_115323.jpg"></a><a class="link-text" href="https://cdn.i-scmp.com/sites/default/files/d8/images/methode/2019/07/02/5d2d5df2-9be4-11e9-baa5-dd214ed0de8f_image_hires_115323.jpg"></a><a class="link-text" href="https://cdn.i-scmp.com/sites/default/files/d8/images/methode/2019/07/02/5d2d5df2-9be4-11e9-baa5-dd214ed0de8f_image_hires_115323.jpg"></a><a class="link-text" href="https://cdn.i-scmp.com/sites/default/files/d8/images/methode/2019/07/02/5d2d5df2-9be4-11e9-baa5-dd214ed0de8f_image_hires_115323.jpg"><br />Mathura Waghare, a resident of Brahmanpada village in Mokhada, stands with a drum of water. Such drums cost as much as US$5-6. Photo: Kunal Purohit</a><br /><br /><strong><span class="generic-article__body article-details-type--strong content--strong">SLEEPLESS NIGHTS SPENT DODGING SNAKES AND SCORPIONS</span><br /></strong><br />The crisis is overturning the lives of Mokhada locals, who are staying awake through the night in search of water.<br /><br />Mathura Waghare, 35, from the tribal village of Brahmanpada, now has a routine that revolves around getting adequate water for her supply to survive each day.<br /><br />The village’s only source of water, a common well, ran out of water in January this year. Since then, Waghare has been searching for water in nearby villages on foot. When she found water 2km away in a neighbouring village, she was relieved. But the next day, villagers there were up in arms.<br /><br /><br />
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<br />“People in that village feared that they would run out of water if we continued going there. So, they refused to allow us to fill water,” she says.<br /><br />That’s when Waghare decided that she had had enough. She decided to head into the forest, to a well she knew was a 45-minute walk from Brahmanpada. This did not have much water, but the groundwater area in the table was high, she said. So the villagers would wait at the well every day for groundwater to percolate into the well.<br /><br />Each night at around 3am, Waghare starts walking into the forest with her stainless steel handis (large pots). Most nights, women from the neighbourhood walk with her. “It gets scary to walk alone. There are scorpions and snakes in the forest; the other night, we saw a snake slide past,” Waghare says.<br /><br /><a class="link-text" href="https://cdn.i-scmp.com/sites/default/files/d8/images/methode/2019/07/02/71dbed5e-9be4-11e9-baa5-dd214ed0de8f_image_hires_115323.jpg"></a><a class="link-text" href="https://cdn.i-scmp.com/sites/default/files/d8/images/methode/2019/07/02/71dbed5e-9be4-11e9-baa5-dd214ed0de8f_image_hires_115323.jpg"></a><a class="link-text" href="https://cdn.i-scmp.com/sites/default/files/d8/images/methode/2019/07/02/71dbed5e-9be4-11e9-baa5-dd214ed0de8f_image_hires_115323.jpg"></a><a class="link-text" href="https://cdn.i-scmp.com/sites/default/files/d8/images/methode/2019/07/02/71dbed5e-9be4-11e9-baa5-dd214ed0de8f_image_hires_115323.jpg"><br />Mathura Mavle dug this pit with her friend, using their bare hands, in their desperation for water. Photo: Kunal Purohit<br /></a><br />With battery-operated torches in their hands, and balancing the handis on their heads, the women set out each night and sometimes, even multiple times in the day, if they receive unexpected guests or if the water runs out sooner. Once at the well, Waghare queues up, waiting for the water to percolate. “Sometimes, it takes 3-4 hours; other times, there is enough water in an hour. It is unpredictable,” she explains. Water filled, she balances two handis on her head, the third one in her hand, fingers firmly clasped around its neck.<br /><br />On an average day, she sleeps for five hours, before waking up between 2am and 3am. But there are days when her worries are so severe that she cannot sleep.<br /><br />“So, I finish my chores in the night and set out at 10pm or so. Without water, we can’t survive, so sleep does not matter,” she says.<br /><br /><strong><span class="generic-article__body article-details-type--strong content--strong">TAKING MATTERS INTO HER OWN HANDS</span><br /></strong><br />Mathura Mavle, 30, sympathises with Waghare’s situation.<br /><br />Mavle lives in the tribal village of Kharawali, about 5km away from Waghare’s Brahmanpada. Just outside Mavle’s house lies a well. But it is bone-dry and its floor lies exposed to the sun. Another well, 1.5km away, is also nearly dry.<br /><br />So one summer day, two months ago, Mavle and Asha H* walked for a kilometre or so, climbing down small rocky cliffs to where a small stream flows past in the monsoons. The stream goes dry by October every year.<br /><br />One rock at a time, they both dug a small hole in the earth, at the base of an old tree. They kept digging through the day. Seven hours later, at a depth of almost one metre, they hit water.<br /><br /><h3 style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: none; border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch; display: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.71rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 300; line-height: 2.42rem; margin-bottom: 2.35rem; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="link-text" href="https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3012754/water-shortages-and-heatstroke-warnings-issued-temperatures">Warnings issued as temperatures pass 50 Celsius in India heatwave<br /></a></h3>The women have been trekking to the pit every day since, with their children and sometimes their husbands in tow, to collect water.<br /><br />But digging the hole, they realised, was just half the battle won. Standing over the pit, Mavle says: “There is only as much water a small pit like this can carry. So, whenever it runs out of water, we just sit around, waiting for groundwater to percolate into it.”<br /><br />The unpredictability means locals can be queuing up at the pit for up to half the day. Today isn’t one of those days. Mavle walks into the pit, crouches and patiently fills her pots, one bowl at a time. “We got lucky today,” she says, smiling.<br /><br /><span class="generic-article__body article-details-type--strong content--strong"><strong>MOKHADA’S LONG-STANDING NEGLECT</strong></span><br /><br />For activists working in the region, Mokhada’s struggles are a result of a long-standing neglect of the region.<br /><br />Brian Lobo, a veteran activist of the Kashtakari Sanghatana (Farmers Collective), says the locals have been clamouring for authorities to address the issue for years.<br /><br />He points to the three major dams in the region – these dams on the Vaitarna river, flowing through the region, supplying daily over 1,000 million litres of water to Mumbai. “We have demanded that the water from one of these dams, the Upper Vaitarna dam in the region be used to fulfil the needs of locals, rather than being diverted for industrial purposes.”<br /><br />Lobo said a study had even found it to be a workable solution. “But, consequent governments refused to implement it,” he said.<br /><h2 style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: none; border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 1.71rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 2.21rem; margin-bottom: 0.42rem; margin-top: 1.14rem; vertical-align: baseline;">This crisis is not just about the poor management of water alone but a broader mismanagement of natural resources. <span class="quote-body-container__author author">Brian Lobo, activist</span></h2>One of the first dams in the region, the Modak Sagar Dam, was constructed in 1957 to supply water to Mumbai. The dam supplies over 400 million litres of water to Mumbai each day.<br /><br />The administrative head of Palghar district, Dr Prashant Nanaware, admits that there’s a problem. He says the government is working out a solution. “We also believe that the river’s water can be diverted for locals. We are working on a proposal to have water supply schemes for these parched villages and once approved, we will execute these.”<br /><br />But Mokhada is not alone in experiencing poor water supplies.<br /><br />At a time when a severe water crisis has gripped much of India, including the southern metropolis of Chennai, such similar stories of poor management of water resources abound.<br /><br /><h3 style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: none; border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch; display: inherit; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.71rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 300; line-height: 2.42rem; margin-bottom: 2.35rem; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="link-text" href="https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3015251/workers-told-shower-less-hotels-ration-water-guests-reservoirs">Workers told to shower less as reservoirs in Chennai city dry up<br /></a></h3>Chennai, a city with over 9 million inhabitants, faces a crippling water shortage – four major reservoirs that form the bulk of its water supply have dipped to less than 1 per cent of their capacity. Other sources are also running out of water. With its official monsoon season at least two more months away, the city is praying for unseasonal rainfall.<br /><br />But even in Chennai, data shows many of the city’s water bodies, which could have been a valuable asset in this scarcity, have become defunct due to poor management as well as allowing construction on it.<br /><br />Similarly, unplanned urbanisation has led to many of its wetlands shrinking to a fraction of their original size in the last few decades.<br /><br />Nityanand Jayaraman, a Chennai-based writer and a social activist who has been tracking environmental causes, says: “This crisis is not just about the poor management of water alone but a broader mismanagement of natural resources. Chennai’s growth has come at the cost of open spaces and water bodies, both of which are taken over and built upon to create more and more housing.”<br /><br />The pattern isn’t unique to Chennai, Jayaraman says. Pointing to other Indian metros, he says: “Across different Indian metros, we have followed this same model of development, one that prioritises needs of housing and commerce but not the environment.”<br /><br />*<em>Name changed because she works for the local government and did not wish to be identified</em><br /><br /><br />

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Investigators suggest Abdeslam could have ditched the vest because it was defective or because he decided to abort the mission.</p><p><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"><strong>2. <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/brussels-on-edge-as-lockdown-continues-1448280916">Brussels remains on lockdown for a fourth day on Tuesday</a></strong> and under the highest-alert level over fears over a Paris-like attack.</span></p><p><strong>3. </strong><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"><strong><a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/state-department-worldwide-travel-alert-2015-11">The US State Department on Monday issued a worldwide travel alert</a></strong> because of "increased terrorist threats" </span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">linked to the terrorist group ISIS and following terror attacks in France and Egypt.</span></p><p><strong>4</strong><strong style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">. </strong><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"><strong><a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/r-texas-student-arrested-over-clock-seeks-millions-from-city-schools-2015-11">The family of the Muslim teenager who was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school</a></strong> after it was mistaken for a bomb is seeking $15 million (£9.9 million) in damages from the city of Irving, Texas, and its schools. </span></p><p><strong>5. </strong><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"><strong><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-canada-to-announce-plan-to-resettle-25000-refugees-tuesday-2015-11?IR=T">Canada on Tuesday will announce plans to resettle 25,000 Syrian</a> </strong>refugees.</span></p><p><strong>6. </strong><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"><strong><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/r-bomb-explodes-outside-greek-business-federation-offices-in-athens-police-2015-11?IR=T">A bomb that exploded outside the offices of a Greek business federation in central Athens</a></strong> early on Tuesday </span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">is the first such attack since leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras took power in January.</span></p><p><strong>7. <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/un-weather-related-disasters-are-costing-the-world-300-billion-each-year-2015-11">Floods, storms, heatwaves, and droughts are costing the world up to $300 billion (£1.98 billion) each year</a></strong>, according to a new United Nations report.<strong><a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/r-pfizer-and-allergan-to-approve-merger-agreement-on-sunday-sources-2015-11"><br /></a></strong></p><p><strong>8. <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/ap-nestle-confirms-labor-abuse-among-its-thai-seafood-suppliers-2015-11">Nestle, one of the world's biggest food companies, has admitted to abuses by its Thai seafood suppliers</a> </strong>with one Burmese worker explaining: <span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">"Sometimes, the net is too heavy and workers get pulled into the water and just disappear. 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Investigators suggest <span>Abdeslam </span>could have ditched the vest because it was defective or because he decided to abort the mission.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"><strong>2. <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/brussels-on-edge-as-lockdown-continues-1448280916">Brussels remains on lockdown for a fourth day on Tuesday</a></strong> and under the highest-alert level over fears over a Paris-like attack.</span></p><p><strong>3. </strong><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"><strong><a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/state-department-worldwide-travel-alert-2015-11">The US State Department on Monday issued a worldwide travel alert</a></strong> because of "increased terrorist threats" </span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">linked to the terrorist group ISIS and following terror attacks in France and Egypt.</span></p><p><strong>4</strong><strong style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">. </strong><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"><strong><a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/r-texas-student-arrested-over-clock-seeks-millions-from-city-schools-2015-11">The family of the Muslim teenager who was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school</a></strong> after it was mistaken for a bomb is seeking $15 million (£9.9 million) in damages from the city of Irving, Texas, and its schools. </span></p><p><strong><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-canada-to-announce-plan-to-resettle-25000-refugees-tuesday-2015-11?IR=T"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">5. </span></a></strong><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"><strong><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-canada-to-announce-plan-to-resettle-25000-refugees-tuesday-2015-11?IR=T">Canada on Tuesday will announce plans to resettle 25,000 Syrian</a> </strong>refugees.</span></p><p><strong>6. </strong><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"><strong><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/r-bomb-explodes-outside-greek-business-federation-offices-in-athens-police-2015-11?IR=T">A bomb that exploded outside the offices of a Greek business federation in central Athens</a></strong> early on Tuesday </span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">is the first such attack since leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras came to power in January.</span></p><p><strong>7. <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/un-weather-related-disasters-are-costing-the-world-300-billion-each-year-2015-11">Floods, storms, heatwaves, and droughts are costing the world up to $300 billion (£1.98 billion) each year</a></strong>, according to a new United Nations report.<strong><a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/r-pfizer-and-allergan-to-approve-merger-agreement-on-sunday-sources-2015-11"><br /></a></strong></p><p><strong>8. <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/ap-nestle-confirms-labor-abuse-among-its-thai-seafood-suppliers-2015-11">Nestle, one of the world's biggest food companies, has admitted to abuses by its Thai seafood suppliers</a> </strong>with one Burmese worker explaining: <span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">"Sometimes, the net is too heavy and workers get pulled into the water and just disappear. 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