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Water/Drought

Warming Trends: Laughing About Climate Change, Fighting With Water and Investigating the Health Impacts of Fracking

A column highlighting climate-related studies, innovations, books, cultural events and other developments from the global warming frontier.

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Katie Hannigan performs at The Stress Factory Comedy Club on Jan. 19, 2018 in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Hannigan is one of nine members of the new Climate Comedy Cohort. Credit: Bobby Bank/Getty Images

California Water Regulators Still Haven’t Considered the Growing Body of Research on the Risks of Oil Field Wastewater

By Liza Gross

A portion of an aqueduct to move water to the east side of the San Joaquin Valley, is viewed on July 8, 2021, thirty minutes east of Fresno, California. Credit: George Rose/Getty Images

Warming Trends: Forests Are the Best Big-City Water Filters, Plus Veggie Burgers by Default, Sea Songs by ET’s Doctor and a Reminder to Eat Fresh Food in the Fridge

By Katelyn Weisbrod

A Climate-Driven Decline of Tiny Dryland Lichens Could Have Big Global Impacts

By Bob Berwyn

Steven Kisiel opens the gate to his 20-acre property in Cochise County, Ariz. on March 1, 2022. When he bought the property over 20 years ago, he didn't expect to have to worry about running water, he said. Credit: Aydali Campa

Two Areas in Rural Arizona Might Finally Gain Protection of Their Groundwater This Year

By Aydali Campa

Glen Canyon Dam is seen, behind which are record low water levels at Lake Powell, as the drought continues to worsen on July 2, 2021 near Page, Arizona. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

As Lake Powell Hits Landmark Low, Arizona Looks to a $1 Billion Investment and Mexican Seawater to Slake its Thirst

By Aydali Campa

Redbreast sunfish are seein in Florida. Credit: Reinhard Dirscherl/ullstein bild via Getty Images

Fish on Valium: A Multitude of Prescription Drugs Are Contaminating Florida’s Waterways and Marine Life

By Aman Azhar

Kern County farmers use oil field wastewater to grow water-intensive crops like oranges in one of California's driest agricultural regions. Credit: Liza Gross

Why Did California Regulators Choose a Firm with Ties to Chevron to Study Irrigating Crops with Oil Wastewater?

By Liza Gross

Ranchers stand by a water tank as they work on a water project to try and get more water to their ranch from a well on June 8, 2021 in Tomales, California. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

California Has Begun Managing Groundwater Under a New Law. Experts Aren’t Sure It’s Working

By Elena Shao

A California Water Board Assures the Public that Oil Wastewater Is Safe for Irrigation, But Experts Say the Evidence Is Scant 

By Liza Gross

Rancher Jaim Teixeira surveys the landscape at the edge of his property, near Trairão in the Brazilian state of Pará. Teixeira lit the forest on fire to clear it so he can graze his cattle, though burning primary rainforest in the Amazon is illegal. Credit: Larry Price

The Amazon is the Planet’s Counterweight to Global Warming, a Place of Stupefying Richness Under Relentless Assault

By Georgina Gustin

Glen Canyon Dam is seen next to the white "bathtub ring" of previously submerged rock, indicating record low water levels at Lake Powell as the drought continues to worsen on July 2, 2021 near Page, Arizona. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Drought is Causing U.S. Hydropower to Have a Rough Year. Is This a Sign of a Long-Term Shift?

By Dan Gearino

Members of the Mexican Army evacuate patients of the IMSS Hospital in Tula de Allende, Hidalgo state, Mexico, on Sept. 7, 2021. Credit: Francisco Villeda/AFP via Getty Images

World Meteorological Organization Sharpens Warnings About Both Too Much and Too Little Water

By Bob Berwyn

Transition from Sawgrass to coastal habitat in Everglades National Park. Credit: National Park Service

Moving Water in the Everglades Sends a Cascade of Consequences, Some Anticipated and Some Not

By Amy Green

View from Pennsylvania to New Jersey over the Delaware River. Credit: Jumping Rocks/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.

The Riverkeeper’s Quest to Protect the Delaware River Watershed as the Rains Fall and Sea Level Rises

By Daelin Brown

A new study shows the potential for widespread surface water pollution from hydraulic fracturing like at this drilling site in Western Colorado. Credit: Bob Berwyn

Surface Water Vulnerable to Widespread Pollution From Fracking, a New Study Finds

By Bob Berwyn

Ian McCammon, the writer's spouse, rows the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon National Park, here amidst ancient Vishnu schist in May. The trip offers a window into deep time and recent history. The needs of recreational boaters, wildlife, the canyon ecology and water users is part of an ongoing conversation that has been made more contentious because of drought, water shortages and global warming. Credit: Judy Fahys/Inside Climate News

From a Raft in the Grand Canyon, the West’s Shifting Water Woes Come Into View

By Judy Fahys

A Crisis Of Water And Power On The Colorado River

Water birds fly over the Sacrameno-San Joaquin River Delta, which boasts a diversity of flora and fauna that thrive in wetlands about the size of Orange County. Credit: Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

A Delta in Distress

By Liza Gross

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