Skip to content
  • Science
  • Politics
  • Justice & Health
  • Fossil Fuels
  • Clean Energy
  • ICN Local
  • Projects
  • About Us
Inside Climate News
Pulitzer Prize-winning, nonpartisan reporting on the biggest crisis facing our planet.
Donate
Trump 2.0: The Reckoning
Inside Climate News
Donate

Search

  • Science
  • Politics
  • Justice & Health
  • Fossil Fuels
  • Clean Energy
  • ICN Local
  • Projects
  • About Us
  • Newsletters
  • ICN Sunday Morning
  • Contact Us

Topics

  • A.I. & Data Centers
  • Activism
  • Arctic
  • Biodiversity & Conservation
  • Business & Finance
  • Climate Law & Liability
  • Climate Treaties
  • Denial & Misinformation
  • Environment & Health
  • Extreme Weather
  • Food & Agriculture
  • Fracking
  • Nuclear
  • Pipelines
  • Plastics
  • Public Lands
  • Regulation
  • Super-Pollutants
  • Water/Drought
  • Wildfires

Information

  • About
  • Job Openings
  • Reporting Network
  • Whistleblowers
  • Memberships
  • Ways to Give
  • Fellows & Fellowships

Publications

  • E-Books
  • Documents

Water/Drought

Eric Schott, a marine researcher at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, and graduate student Ronita Sequeira set up nets to capture small fish and other aquatic organisms along the Middle Branch of the Patapsco River in South Baltimore. Credit: Aman Azhar/Inside Climate News

Baltimore Is Investing in Wetlands Restoration, a Climate Line of Defense

By Aman Azhar

Health alert signs warn of a toxic blue-green algae bloom on Lake Jesup in Sanford, Florida. Credit: Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

New Study Finds Lakes in Minority Communities Across the US Are Less Likely to be Monitored

By Lydia Larsen

People help an elderly man wade through flood water on Sept. 12 in Maiduguri, Nigeria. Credit: Audu Marte/AFP via Getty Images

A Thousand Lives Lost, and Millions Disrupted, by Flooding in Western Africa

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

Noah Devros, a graduate student and researcher at the University of Southern Mississippi, holds a female Pearl River map turtle as he collects data and tags the turtles for further research in September 2024. Credit: Elise Plunk/Louisiana Illuminator

Can Mississippi Advocates Use a Turtle To Fight a Huge Pearl River Engineering Project?

By Illan Ireland, Mississippi Free Press and Elise Plunk, Louisiana Illuminator

Rapidan Dam is left damaged after days of historic flooding in Waterville, Minnesota on June 25. Credit: Christopher Mark Juhn/Anadolu via Getty Images

Midwest States Struggle to Fund Dam Safety Projects, Even as Federal Aid Hits Historic Highs

By Kristoffer Tigue

CalFire manages a prescribed controlled burn in Northern California on Nov. 14, 2023. Wildfire prevention, among other climate solutions, is on the state's ballot as Proposition 4. Credit: Penny Collins/NurPhoto via Getty Images

California Ballot Asks Voters to Invest in Climate Solutions

By Liza Gross

Global warming will drive more extremes at both ends of the hydrological cycle, droughts and floods, but a new study shows that existing climate models are particularly underestimating the length of future dry spells. Credit: Michael Dantas/AFP and Gabriel Kuchta/Getty Images

New Study Suggests Major Climate Reports May Be Underestimating Drought Risks

By Bob Berwyn

Fishermen try their luck from the Mobile Bay Causeway in south Alabama. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Alabama Environmental Group, Fishermen Seek to End ‘Federal Mud Dumping’ in Mobile Bay

By Dennis Pillion

Sprinklers water a lettuce field in Holtville, California on Feb. 9, 2023. The agriculture sector uses about 80 percent of the state’s consumed water. Credit: Sandy Huffaker/AFP via Getty Images

The Key to Fix California’s Inadequate Water Storage? Put Water Underground, Scientists Say

By Caroline Marshall Reinhart

An aerial view of barges, stranded by low water at the Port of Rosedale along the Mississippi River on Oct. 20, 2022 in Rosedale, Mississippi. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Another Midwest Drought Is Causing Transportation Headaches on the Mississippi River

By Kristoffer Tigue

Water flows through Glen Canyon Dam's river outlet works. The pipes will undergo $9 million in repairs, but conservation groups want to see more permanent renovations at the dam, which holds back Lake Powell as Colorado River supplies shrink. Credit: Bureau of Reclamation

Lake Powell Plumbing Will Be Repaired, but Some Say Glen Canyon Dam Needs a Long-Term Fix

By Alex Hager, KUNC

Residents flee Green Valley Lake, California, under a mandatory evacuation order as the Line Fire burns through the San Bernardino National Forest on Sept. 10. Credit: Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

‘Weather Whiplash’ Helped Drive This Year’s California Wildfires

By Caroline Marshall Reinhart

Outside a home in Arizona’s Pine-Strawberry community, a sign urges others to conserve water and that the water crisis in the district is real. Credit: Wyatt Myskow/Inside Climate News

Customers Sue an Arizona Water District Amid Drought and Surging Demand

By Wyatt Myskow

Michael Katrutsa walks through rows of tomatoes on his 20-acre produce farm in Camden, Tennessee. His crops also include sweet corn, watermelon, cantaloupe, peppers, cucumbers, okra and more. Credit: John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout

As Climate Threats to Agriculture Mount, Could the Mississippi River Delta Be the Next California?

By Cassandra Stephenson, Illan Ireland and Phillip Powell, Tennessee Lookout

The steady increase in harmful algal blooms has spurred residents and officials around Owasco Lake to develop proposed enforceable rules to minimize the phosphorous and nitrogen runoff from farms in their watershed. Credit: New York Department of Environmental Conservation

Algal Blooms Ravaged New York’s Finger Lakes During Final Week of August

By Peter Mantius

The Cape Fear River has been contaminated with forever chemicals, such as PFAS and 1,4-Dioxane from industrial dischargers upstream. Credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images

Nonprofit Law Center Asks EPA to Take Over Water Permitting in N.C.

By Lisa Sorg

Glacial water streams down rocks in California’s Hoover Wilderness south of Leavitt Lake. Credit: Bing Lin/Inside Climate News

Water Issues Confronting Hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail Trickle Down Into the Rest of California

By Bing Lin

A farmer walks through his field of dried-up crops in the Butha-Buthe District of Lesotho on Aug. 7. Credit: Phill Magakoe/AFP via Getty Images

As Global Hunger Levels Remain Stubbornly High, Advocates Call for More Money to Change the Way the World Produces Food

By Georgina Gustin

Posts pagination

Prev 1 … 5 6 7 … 20 Next

Newsletters

We deliver climate news to your inbox like nobody else. Every day or once a week, our original stories and digest of the web's top headlines deliver the full story, for free.

Keep Environmental Journalism Alive

ICN provides award-winning climate coverage free of charge and advertising. We rely on donations from readers like you to keep going.

Donate Now
Inside Climate News
  • Science
  • Politics
  • Justice & Health
  • Fossil Fuels
  • Clean Energy
  • Home
  • About
  • Contact Us
  • Whistleblowers
  • Privacy Policy
  • Charity Navigator
Inside Climate News uses cookies. By continuing to use this site, you accept this policy. Learn More