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Water/Drought

Mediterranean Sea. Credit: Valery Hache/AFP via Getty Images

Changing Patterns of Ocean Salt Levels Give Scientists Clues to Extreme Weather on Land

By Bob Berwyn

Scum floats on the surface of Western Lake Erie on Sept. 20, 2017. Credit: NOAA

Lake Erie’s Toxic Green Slime is Getting Worse With Climate Change

By Nicole Pollack

Clay Nelson is using a floodlight to find stunned fish and retrieve them at a sampling site on the main Colorado downstream from the Little Colorado River. Scientific findings are being used to help guide Colorado River operations. Credit: Judy Fahys

Humpback Chub 'Alien Abductions' Help Frame the Future of the Colorado River

By Judy Fahys

Farm fields in southwestern Utah were dry in the weeks leading up to a statewide drought declaration in 2018. Credit: Judy Fahys/InsideClimate News

Drought Fears Take Hold in a Four Corners Region Already Beset by the Coronavirus Pandemic

By Judy Fahys

The Colorado River, the source of the Grand Valley’s irrigation water, flows through Debeque Canyon. Credit: Luke Runyon/KUNC

Western Colorado Water Purchases Stir Up Worries About The Future Of Farming

By HEATHER SACKETT, ASPEN JOURNALISM AND LUKE RUNYON, KUNC

A sign referencing the drought is posted next to a fallow field on April 24, 2015 in Lemoore, California. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

The Parched West is Heading Into a Global Warming-Fueled Megadrought That Could Last for Centuries

By Bob Berwyn

In 2018, snowpack in the Rocky Mountains was much lower than usual. Credit: Joshua Stevens/NASA Earth Observatory

New Study Projects Severe Water Shortages in the Colorado River Basin

By Bob Berwyn

Homes along a sand spit of land on Litchfield Beach, South Carolina. Credit: Jason Lee, McClatchy newspapers

South Carolina Has No Overall Plan to Fight Climate Change

By Sammy Fretwell, The State

After Deadly Floods, West Virginia Created a Resiliency Office. It’s Barely Functioning.

By Brittany Patterson, Ohio Valley ReSource and West Virginia Public Broadcasting

Midwest flooding in the spring of 2019 in Craig, Missouri. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

As Climate Change Threatens Midwest's Cultural Identity, Cities Test Ways to Adapt

By Dan Gearino

Farms in Colorado's North Fork Valley rely on snowmelt. Credit: Jutta Strohmaier

In the Mountains, Climate Change Is Disrupting Everything

By Bob Berwyn

Heavy machinery excavate coal ash from an unlined coal ash pond in Virginia, where a large water release in 2015 had sent the byproducts of coal-burning into Quantico Creek, a tributary of the Potomac River. Credit: Kate Patterson for The Washington Post

Trump EPA Proposes Weaker Coal Ash Rules, More Use at Construction Sites

By James Bruggers

Sockeye salmon. Credit: Mark Conlin/VW PICS/UIG via Getty Images

Global Warming Is Pushing Pacific Salmon to the Brink, Federal Scientists Warn

By Bob Berwyn

Farmers and ranchers in Australia’s New South Wales have been struggling through years of drought that has dried the soil. Credit: Brook Mitchell/Getty Images

Global Warming Was Already Fueling Droughts in Early 1900s, Study Shows

By Bob Berwyn

People walk on a beach that used to be the bottom of Lake Powell, a key reservoir on the Colorado River in Utah. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Beyond Drought: 7 States Rebalance Colorado River Use as Global Warming Dries the Region

By Bob Berwyn

The National Climate Assessment warns of increasing extreme rainfall events, like the storm that flooded communities across a large swath of Louisiana in 2016. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Climate Change Puts U.S. Economy at Risk, and Costs Are Rising, Federal Agencies Warn

By Bob Berwyn

Dangers Without Borders: An ICN Series on Military Readiness in a Warming World

Dangers Without Borders: Military Readiness in a Warming World

By Neela Banerjee

California's deadliest wildfire on record swept through the down of Paradise in November. Credit: Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images

Q&A: Drier Autumns Are Fueling Deadly California Wildfires

By Sabrina Shankman

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