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Jay Barlogi, the general manager of the Twin Falls Canal Company, explains how water from the Snake River moves through irrigation canals on June 27. Credit: Daniel Rothberg/Inside Climate News

In Idaho, Water Shortages Pit Farmers Against One Another

By Daniel Rothberg

People try to keep cool at Coney Island during a heat wave in New York City on July 28, 2023. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

With Heat Waves, an Increased Risk for Heart Problems, New Research Shows

By Victoria St. Martin

A field of coconut trees cling to life as desertification advances around them in Icó-Mandantes, Brazil. Credit: Arnaldo Sete/MZ Conteúdo.

In Brazil’s Semi-Arid Region, Small Farmers Work Exhausted Lands, Hoping a New Government Will Revive the War on Desertification

Story by Giovanna Carneiro and Inácio França, Marco Zero Conteúdo

Volunteers distribute cold drinks at a heat wave relief camp on May 31 in Lahore, Pakistan. Credit: Arif Ali/AFP via Getty Images

Q&A: As Temperatures in Pakistan Top 120 Degrees, There’s Nowhere to Run

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

A farm irrigation system is seen near Ralls, Texas, about 30 miles east of Lubbock. Texas leads the nation in crop insurance payouts due to drought, and those costs are expected to increase because of climate change. Credit: Trace Thomas/The Texas Tribune

Texas Droughts Are Getting Much More Expensive

By Dylan Baddour, Inside Climate News, and Alejandra Martinez, Texas Tribune

Leslie Hagenstein indicates where the New Fork River flows through her property on Mar. 27. She signed up for a program that pays her to pause irrigation on her land in order to save Colorado River water. Some experts say the System Conservation Pilot Program, or SCPP, is costly and may not be the most effective way to save Colorado River water. Credit: Alex Hager/KUNC

Using Less of the Colorado River Takes a Willing Farmer and $45 Million in Federal Funds

By Alex Hager, KUNC and Heather Sackett, Aspen Journalism

El puente de la carretera 90 cruza la presa de la Amistad cerca de Del Rio, Texas. El agua entregado a EE.UU. se almacena en dos embalses, donde los niveles de agua han bajado en los últimos meses. Fotografía por Omar Ornelas

La otra disputa fronteriza es sobre un tratado de aguas de 80 años

By Martha Pskowski

The U.S. 90 bridge crosses the Amistad Reservoir near Del Rio, Texas. Water deliveries from Mexico are stored at the reservoir, where water levels have dropped in recent months. Credit: Omar Ornelas

The Other Border Dispute Is Over an 80-Year-Old Water Treaty

By Martha Pskowski

People walk down a damaged street in the aftermath of Hurricane Otis in Acapulco, Mexico on Oct. 28, 2023. Credit: Dassaev Tellez Adame/Xinhua via Getty Images

Climate Extremes Slammed Latin America and the Caribbean Last Year. A New UN Report Details the Impacts and Costs

By Bob Berwyn

A person rides a bicycle as heat causes a visual distortion during a record heat wave in Phoenix on July 25, 2023. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Phoenix Braces—and Plans—for Another Hot, Dry Summer

By Wyatt Myskow

Sarah Woodbury leads a performance highlighting the migration of Wilson's phalarope during a rally to have the inland shorebird listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act on March 28 in front of the Utah State Capitol. Credit: Wyatt Myskow/Inside Climate News

How a Tiny Inland Shorebird Could Help Save the Great Salt Lake

By Wyatt Myskow

Archie Stone, the wildland coordinator for the Borger Fire Department, points to where the Windy Deuce fire stopped next to a 2023 prescribed burn line outside the city. Credit: Keaton Peters/Inside Climate News

As Climate Change Intensifies Wildfire Risk, Prescribed Burns Prove Their Worth in the Heat-Stressed Plains of the Texas Panhandle

By Keaton Peters

Bob Martin, who manages hydropower at Glen Canyon Dam, shows the effects of cavitation on a decommissioned turbine on Nov. 2, 2022. When air pockets enter the dam's pipes, they cause structural damage. Water managers recently discovered similar damage in a little-used set of tubes that carry water to the Colorado River. Credit: Alex Hager/KUNC

A Plumbing Issue at This Lake Powell Dam Could Cause Big Trouble for Western Water

By Alex Hager, KUNC

The Oglala Sioux Tribe could use old wells with elevated levels of arsenic to combat future wildfires. Credit: Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images and Grist

Water From Arsenic-Laced Wells Could Protect the Pine Ridge Reservation From Wildfires

By Taylar Dawn Stagner, Grist

A boy collects water from a shallow well on Feb. 24, 2024 in Lusaka, Zambia. Credit: Luke Dray/Getty Images

Zambians Feel the Personal Consequences of Climate Change—and Dream of a Sustainable Future

By Georgina Gustin

A man uses a spear to deter pink dolphins as they attempt to snatch fish from the fishermen's nets, often resulting in the damaging the nylon tools. Credit: Dado Galdieri/Hilaea Media

A River in Flux

By Daniel Grossman

A fast-moving wildfire burned more than 1,000 acres this month near Wendell, Minnesota, about 150 miles northwest of the Twin Cities. Much of the Midwest has been under red flag warnings this spring following a record hot and dry winter that officials say has dramatically increased the threat of wildfires in the region. Credit: Courtesy of Fergus Falls Fire Department

From Michigan to Nebraska, Midwest States Face an Early Wildfire Season

By Kristoffer Tigue

People walk on a section of the Great Salt Lake that used to be underwater on Aug. 2, 2021 near Magna, Utah. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

In Deep Red Utah, Climate Concerns Are Now Motivating Candidates

By Marcus Baram, Capital & Main

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