Water/Drought
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
Inside Clean Energy: Drought is Causing U.S. Hydropower to Have a Rough Year. Is This a Sign of a Long-Term Shift?
By Dan Gearino
World Meteorological Organization Sharpens Warnings About Both Too Much and Too Little Water
By Bob Berwyn
Moving Water in the Everglades Sends a Cascade of Consequences, Some Anticipated and Some Not
By Amy Green
The Riverkeeper’s Quest to Protect the Delaware River Watershed as the Rains Fall and Sea Level Rises
By Daelin Brown
Surface Water Vulnerable to Widespread Pollution From Fracking, a New Study Finds
By Bob Berwyn
From a Raft in the Grand Canyon, the West’s Shifting Water Woes Come Into View
By Judy Fahys
A Crisis Of Water And Power On The Colorado River
