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Water/Drought

Dry land is exposed on the banks of the Lake Oroville reservoir due to low water levels during the California drought emergency on May 25, 2021, in Oroville, Calif. Credit: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

New Poll Shows Americans View Water That’s Safe to Drink and Reliably Supplied as Top Issues

By Wyatt Myskow

The site of a water pipeline project by the company Recharge through Lee County into Williamson County is pictured on March 28. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

‘Water Is the New Oil’ as Texas Cities Square Off Over Aquifers

By Dylan Baddour

An aerial view of the Solimoes River, a tributary of the Amazon River that’s in a critical state during a historic drought, in the Brazilian state of Amazonas on Sept. 30, 2024. Credit: Michael Dantas/AFP via Getty Images

Earth’s Land Masses Are Drying Out Fast, Scientists Warn

By Bob Berwyn

An aerial view of the Colorado River near the Glen Canyon Dam in Page, Ariz., as drought conditions affect the Southwest on June 18, 2024. Credit: Bryan R. Smith/AFP via Getty Images

Despite Staff and Budget Cuts, NOAA Issues Critical Drought Warnings in Its Spring Climate Outlook

By Bob Berwyn

More than 1 million people skated on the Rideau Canal Skateway, the world's largest ice rink, in Ottawa this winter. Credit: Phil McKenna/Inside Climate News

Can the World’s Largest Ice Rink Survive a Warming Planet?

By Phil McKenna

Emergency services respond to a brush fire in Inwood Hill Park on Nov. 13, 2024 in New York City. Credit: Alex Kent/Getty Images

NYC’s Inwood Hill Park Looks Ahead After a Fall Fire Season

By Ayanna Dickinson

Sprinklers water crops on a farm near Coachella, Calif. during a long-duration heat wave and drought on July 3, 2024. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

USDA’s Purge of Climate Data is Illegal and Reckless, Doing Immediate Harm to Farmers, Lawsuit Alleges  

By Miranda Lipton

The Benjamin Franklin Bridge crosses the Delaware River in Philadelphia. Credit: Thomas Hengge/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Water Agency Renews Concern That Sea-Level Rise Will Flood Drinking-Water Intakes in Philadelphia, Southern N.J.

By Jon Hurdle

The Colorado River flows out of Lake Mead, the nation's largest reservoir, on Dec. 16, 2021. Credit: Alex Hager/KUNC

Questions and Confusion as Trump Pauses Key Funding for Shrinking Colorado River

By Alex Hager, KUNC

Since 2019, forest regions from the Chilean Coast to the Andes Mountains have turned brown as leaves lose their green color. Credit: Benito Rosende

In Chile, a Declining Forest Worries Scientists

By Andrés Muedano

Cars are piled in the street with other debris after flash floods hit Valencia, Spain on Oct. 30, 2024. Credit: David Ramos/Getty Images

An Economist’s Dire Forecast About Just How Much Climate Change Will Impact GDP

Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth

A section of lead pipe that supplied drinking water to a home in Troy, N.Y. is removed on May 20, 2024. Credit: Will Waldron/Albany Times Union via Getty Images

An EPA Rule Will Reduce Lead in Drinking Water—Unless This Effort to Block It Succeeds

By Keerti Gopal

Volunteers and residents start the clean up process following severe flash flooding on July 18, 2021 in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany. Credit: Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images

New German Government Report Highlights Growing Climate Security Risks

By Bob Berwyn

A view of U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis before the start of a NFL game between the Seattle Seahawks and the Minnesota Vikings. Credit: John Autey /MediaNews Group/St. Paul Pioneer Press via Getty Images

American Football Season Is Getting Hotter, Especially in the Midwest

By Kristoffer Tigue

Members of the Chestnut community pose for a photo after attending a Beatrice town council meeting in early February. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

In Chestnut, Black Alabamians Have Lived for Years Without Access to Public Water. There’s Little Hope in Sight

By Lee Hedgepeth

Diversion Dam is where Midvale irrigators divert water from the Big Wind River, which regional tribes want to flow at higher volumes past this point. Credit: Jake Bolster/Inside Climate News

Giving a Dam: Wyoming Tribes Push to Control Reservation Water as the State Proposes Sending it to Outside Irrigators

By Jake Bolster

Chris Bowers (right) surveys a site where nonfunctional turf is being replaced on the University of Northern Colorado campus on Jan. 15. The landscaping change will bring water use on that patch of campus down from about 3 million gallons each year to 1 million. Credit: Alex Hager/KUNC

Replacing Grass Can Help Save Water, but Just How Much?

By Alex Hager, KUNC

Monterey County firefighters clear shrubbery around houses in Brentwood, Calif. as the Palisades Fire grows closer on Jan. 11. Credit: Jon Putman/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Global Warming Set the Stage for Los Angeles Fires

By Bob Berwyn

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