Water/Drought
Strip Mining Worsened the Severity of Deadly Kentucky Floods, Say Former Mining Regulators. They Are Calling for an Investigation
By James Bruggers
Drought Emergency in Mexico Rekindles Demand for Water Law Reform
By Myriam Vidal Valero
Scientists Say It’s ‘Fatally Foolish’ To Not Study Catastrophic Climate Outcomes
By Bob Berwyn
Lack of Loggers Is Hobbling Arizona Forest-Thinning Projects That Could Have Slowed This Year’s Devastating Wildfires
By Andrew Onodera
Baltimore’s ‘Catastrophic Failures’ at Wastewater Treatment Have Triggered a State Takeover, a Federal Lawsuit and Citizen Outrage
By Aman Azhar
Warming Trends: Laughing About Climate Change, Fighting With Water and Investigating the Health Impacts of Fracking
By Katelyn Weisbrod
California Water Regulators Still Haven’t Considered the Growing Body of Research on the Risks of Oil Field Wastewater
By Liza Gross
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
Two Areas in Rural Arizona Might Finally Gain Protection of Their Groundwater This Year
By Aydali Campa
As Lake Powell Hits Landmark Low, Arizona Looks to a $1 Billion Investment and Mexican Seawater to Slake its Thirst
By Aydali Campa
Fish on Valium: A Multitude of Prescription Drugs Are Contaminating Florida’s Waterways and Marine Life
By Aman Azhar
Why Did California Regulators Choose a Firm with Ties to Chevron to Study Irrigating Crops with Oil Wastewater?
By Liza Gross
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
The Amazon is the Planet’s Counterweight to Global Warming, a Place of Stupefying Richness Under Relentless Assault
By Georgina Gustin
