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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

The Colorado River flows through the Shoshone diversion structure on Jan. 29, 2024. A group trying to purchase Shoshone's water was set to receive $40 million from the federal government. Credit: Alex Hager/KUNC/EcoFlight

Money for the Colorado River Faces an Uncertain Fate Under Trump

By Alex Hager, KUNC

A view of downtown Corpus Christi on the South Texas coast. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Corpus Christi Launches Emergency Water Projects as Reservoirs Dwindle and Industrial Demand Grows

By Dylan Baddour

Eric Soderholm, coastal wetlands restoration lead at The Nature Conservancy, takes a soil sample to evaluate the water saturation of peat at the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia. Credit: Sydney Bezanson/The Nature Conservancy

Virginia Once Drained and Dried Peatlands, but Now Eyes Them as Carbon Sinks

By Diana Kruzman

A pedestrian walks across a flooded street in Honolulu on Dec. 7, 2021, the morning after a powerful tropical storm known as a Kona Low hit the Hawaii islands. Credit: Eugene Tanner/AFP via Getty Images

The Supreme Court Let Lawsuits Against Oil Companies Proceed. This Is What It Means

Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, Living on Earth

A firefighter monitors the spread of a wildfire on Jan. 13 in Oxnard, Calif. Credit: Etienne Laurent/AFP via Getty Images

‘Virtually Any City on Earth Can Burn Now’

By Kiley Bense

In Altadena, whole blocks were leveled by a fire that jumped street to street. Credit: Jireh Deng/Inside Climate News

The Dichotomy of a Deadly Paradise—How Urban Sprawl and Climate Change Fuel LA’s  Fires

By Jireh Deng

Firefighters fight flames from the Palisades Fire burning the Theatre Palisades during a powerful windstorm on Jan. 8 in Los Angeles. The fast-moving wildfire is threatening homes in the coastal Pacific Palisades neighborhood amid intense Santa Ana winds and dry conditions in Southern California. Credit: Apu Gomes/Getty Images

The Unusually Strong Force Behind the Apocalyptic Fires in Los Angeles

By Umair Irfan, Vox

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