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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

A view of the Barker Meadow Reservoir in Nederland, Colo. Currently, Nederland relies on water from the City of Boulder’s reservoir. Credit: Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post

A Town Board in Colorado Repeals Rights of Nature Resolutions

By Katie Surma

Skiers hike along the ridgeline of the East Wall at Arapahoe Basin ski area in Colorado on May 4. Credit: Michael Kodas

A Rare Dose of Hope for the Colorado River as New Study Says Future May Be Wetter

By Alex Hager, KUNC

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

Biden Administration Pressed to Act on Federal Contractor Climate Disclosure

By Marianne Lavelle

The Silver Peak mine in Clayton Valley, Nev. is the only active lithium mine in the U.S. Credit: Marli Miller/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Lithium Companies Fight Over Water in the Arid Great Basin

By Daniel Rothberg

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

As Messy Side Effects of Klamath River Dam Removal Continue, Officials Stress That Short-Term Pain Will Yield Long-Term Gain

By Kiley Price

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

Trucks pump and haul spilled water away from a test mining drill site on March 8 in Green River, Utah. Residents are worried over how the Direct Lithium Extraction mine—and any spills caused by it—could impact local water supplies. Credit: Kelly Dunham

Mining Companies Say They Have a Better Way to Get Underground Lithium, but Skepticism Remains

By Wyatt Myskow

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

A man looks out over the Colorado River near Page, Ariz. on Nov. 2, 2022. The seven states that manage the river are divided about how to account for the impacts of climate change in new plans about sharing its water. Credit: Alex Hager/KUNC

Colorado River States Have Two Different Plans for Managing Water. Here’s Why They Disagree

By Alex Hager, KUNC

The Wamme river is seen at a low level during the European heatwave on Aug 10, 2022 in Rochefort, Belgium. Credit: Thierry Monasse/Getty Images

Study Pinpoints Links Between Melting Arctic Ice and Summertime Extreme Weather in Europe

By Bob Berwyn

Circle 6 Baptist Camp, bottom, and produced water ponds, constructed by Martin Water, top, in Lenorah on Feb. 24, 2024. The Railroad Commission approved the construction of the ponds, used to treat and recycle produced water from fracking, next to the Circle 6 Baptist Camp in the Permian Basin. Credit: Julian Mancha for The Texas Tribune/Inside Climate News

Railroad Commission Approves Toxic Waste Ponds Next to Baptist Camp

By Martha Pskowski

Trabajadores agrícolas en un campo cerca de Bakersfield, California. Crédito: Citizen of the Planet/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

A medida que aumentan las temperaturas, más trabajadores mueren en el campo

By Liza Gross, Peter Aldhous

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