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Water & Drought

The Race for Lithium Is Becoming a Race for Water

In the arid American West, expanded mining intensifies battles in vulnerable communities over one of the region’s scarcest resources.

By Johanna Hansel, Carla Samon Ros, Wyatt Myskow

A dilapidated house stands in Calipatria, Calif., a small Imperial Valley community near the Salton Sea. The lithium boom is arriving in a region where residents already face deep economic disparities and longstanding infrastructure challenges. Credit: Carla Samon Ros/CJI
Workers with the Maryland Department of the Environment collect water samples from Piscataway Creek. Credit: Maryland Department of the Environment

Maryland Demands Answers as Fuel Leak Persists From Joint Base Andrews

By Aman Azhar

A fire burns in the Amazon rainforest on Oct. 2 in Iranduba, Brazil. Credit: Michael Dantas/AFP via Getty Images

Compounding Climate Impacts Drive Tropical Forest Decline

By Bob Berwyn

The Rio Grande flows through the San Luis Valley on May 5. Credit: Jacob Spetzler/Inside Climate News

A Colorado Water Trial Could Decide the Future of an Agricultural Valley

By Emily Payne

Boats are left stranded on a dried-up river on the border of France and Switzerland during a heatwave in Europe on Aug 11. Credit: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images

Europe’s Extreme Summer Triggered Cascading Climate Shocks

By Bob Berwyn

Domtar’s plant along the Roanoke River in Plymouth, N.C., makes pulp used in the production of paper hygiene products. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

Regulators Release a Plan to Help Repair the Contaminated Roanoke River

By Lisa Sorg

Nicole Williams’ home was built on land that once belonged to the farm behind her, which has been identified as the source of PFAS in her well. Credit: Ben Seal/Inside Climate News

The Specter of ‘Forever Chemicals’ Looms Over Pennsylvania’s Rural Communities

By Ben Seal

A tug boat pushes barges through the Port of Corpus Christi on Aug. 22. Credit: Jon Shapley/Inside Climate News

Corpus Christi Could Owe Texas $235M for Failed Desalination Plant

By Dylan Baddour

A worker cools off with water during high temperatures in Amritsar, India, on June 29. Credit: Narinder Nanu/AFP via Getty Images

Super El Niño to Cause 451,000 Heat Deaths

By Arcelia Martin

In 2024, farmers in Zambia struggled with El Nino-driven drought, which created severe food and water shortages. This year, the government is spending 60 percent of its budget on debt repayment, with only .32 percent going toward climate adaptation and resilience. Credit: Lusaka Province, Zambia

For Climate-Vulnerable Countries, Debt Costs 25 Times More Than Climate Action

By Alissa de Chassey

Construction at Denver Water’s Gross Reservoir expansion is seen on April 9, 2025, in Boulder County, Colorado. Credit: RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Court Rules in Favor of Feds and Denver Water on Dam Expansion

By Jake Bolster, Wyatt Myskow

A pedestrian walks in downtown Ely, Minn., as the air is filled with smoke from multiple wildfires burning in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness on July 15. Credit: Anthony Soufflé/The Minnesota Star Tribune via Getty Images

Is Wildfire Risk Increasing in the Midwest?

By Susan Cosier

A data center site for sale off Loop 9 in Ellis County, Texas. Credit: Getty Images.

There’s No Comprehensive Mailing List for All Texas Data Center Operators

By Arcelia Martin

Children play in the shrinking waters of the Ciliwung River in Bogor, Indonesia, on July 27 amid drought conditions intensified by this year’s El Niño. Credit: Agoes Rudianto/Anadolu via Getty Images

Global Warming Intensifies El Niño, Galápagos Coral Fossils Show

By Bob Berwyn

The lower Nueces River at Calallen, Texas, on March 30. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Corpus Christi Withholds Water to Wetlands While Lifting Restrictions on Lawns

By Dylan Baddour

People stand at the bottom of a boat ramp that now ends hundreds of feet above the water levels of Lake Powell on Aug. 18 near Page, Ariz. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

The Biggest Carbon Polluters Are to Blame for Half of U.S. Western Water Lost to Climate Change, ‘Groundbreaking’ Paper Says

By Jake Bolster

Boats are seen in the Boulder Basin of Lake Mead on July 25 in Nevada. Credit: Ethan Miller/Getty Images

Fearing ‘Catastrophic Impacts’ From Water Cuts, Nevada Sues Feds Over Colorado River Plan

By Steven Rodas

Smoke rises behind a residential area as a wildfire burns in Gironde, France, on July 23, 2026. New research suggests that dangerous conflagrations like the Gironde wildfire will become more common in the future. Credit: Julien De Rosa/AFP via Getty Images

Europe Faces Surging Wildfire Threat, New Research Shows

By Bob Berwyn

A firefighter works to secure the Moose Fire perimeter on Monday in the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest. Credit: Beaverhead-Deerlodge NF Wildland Fire Information

Recent Rain Slowed Southwestern Montana Wildfires. Now the Heat Is Returning.

By Mosabber Hossain

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