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Pump jacks operate in a Permian Basin oilfield near Eddy County, New Mexico. Credit: Paul Ratje/AFP via Getty Images

New Mexico Debates What to Do With Oil and Gas Wastewater

By Martha Pskowski

The treatment plant's 'digester eggs' loom large over the main garden at the Kingsland Wildflowers Green Roof in Brooklyn. Credit: Lauren Dalban/Inside Climate News

Keeping Stormwater at Bay: a Brooklyn Green Roof Offers a Look at a Climate Resilient Future

By Lauren Dalban

A field of coconut trees cling to life as desertification advances around them in Icó-Mandantes, Brazil. Credit: Arnaldo Sete/MZ Conteúdo.

In Brazil’s Semi-Arid Region, Small Farmers Work Exhausted Lands, Hoping a New Government Will Revive the War on Desertification

Story by Giovanna Carneiro and Inácio França, Marco Zero Conteúdo

Volunteers distribute cold drinks at a heat wave relief camp on May 31 in Lahore, Pakistan. Credit: Arif Ali/AFP via Getty Images

Q&A: As Temperatures in Pakistan Top 120 Degrees, There’s Nowhere to Run

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

A farm irrigation system is seen near Ralls, Texas, about 30 miles east of Lubbock. Texas leads the nation in crop insurance payouts due to drought, and those costs are expected to increase because of climate change. Credit: Trace Thomas/The Texas Tribune

Texas Droughts Are Getting Much More Expensive

By Dylan Baddour, Inside Climate News, and Alejandra Martinez, Texas Tribune

Leslie Hagenstein indicates where the New Fork River flows through her property on Mar. 27. She signed up for a program that pays her to pause irrigation on her land in order to save Colorado River water. Some experts say the System Conservation Pilot Program, or SCPP, is costly and may not be the most effective way to save Colorado River water. Credit: Alex Hager/KUNC

Using Less of the Colorado River Takes a Willing Farmer and $45 Million in Federal Funds

By Alex Hager, KUNC and Heather Sackett, Aspen Journalism

Khadiza Akhter fills up pitchers with water from a spigot in front of her home in Savar, Bangladesh. Credit: Mahadi Al Hasnat/Grist

Salt in the Womb: How Rising Seas Erode Reproductive Health

By Zoya Teirstein and Mahadi Al Hasnat, Grist

El puente de la carretera 90 cruza la presa de la Amistad cerca de Del Rio, Texas. El agua entregado a EE.UU. se almacena en dos embalses, donde los niveles de agua han bajado en los últimos meses. Fotografía por Omar Ornelas

La otra disputa fronteriza es sobre un tratado de aguas de 80 años

By Martha Pskowski

The U.S. 90 bridge crosses the Amistad Reservoir near Del Rio, Texas. Water deliveries from Mexico are stored at the reservoir, where water levels have dropped in recent months. Credit: Omar Ornelas

The Other Border Dispute Is Over an 80-Year-Old Water Treaty

By Martha Pskowski

People walk through flood waters past a store with a broken window on Aug. 30, 2023 after Hurricane Idalia hit Crystal River, Fla. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

NOAA 2024 Hurricane Forecast Is for More Storms Than Ever Before

By Amy Green

Turkiye’s State Disaster and Emergency Management Authority, along with the teams from Russia, Spain, Italy, Tunisia, Algeria and UAE conduct search and rescue operations in the aftermath of severe flooding caused by Storm Daniel in Derna, Libya on Sept. 19, 2023. Credit: Halil Fidan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Significant Environmental and Climate Impacts Are Impinging on Human Rights in Every Country, a New Report Finds

By Katie Surma

A view of a toxic algae bloom on the shores of Guadeloupe. Credit: Loic Venance/AFP via Getty Images

Q&A: The Dire Consequences of Global Warming in the Earth’s Oceans

Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, Living on Earth

More than a year ago, a catastrophic flood submerged the tiny town of Pájaro, about 95 miles south of San Francisco. The Pájaro PhotoVoice Project offered survivors of the disaster the opportunity to use photography to grapple with the impacts of climate change. Credit: Ricardo Paz-Hernandez

After the Deluge, Images of Impacts and Resilience in Pájaro, California

By Liza Gross

The Shell cracker plant in Beaver County, Pennsylvania will produce more than a million tons of plastic along the Ohio River. Credit: Mark Dixon/CC BY 2.0 Deed

Q&A: Is Pittsburgh Becoming ‘the Plastic City’?

By Kiley Bense

Dozens of people attend TxDOT’s public meeting on possible highway expansion near the Rio Bosque Wetlands Park in El Paso, Texas on May 2. Credit: Justin Hamel for The Texas Tribune/Inside Climate News

El Paso Residents Rally to Protect a Rio Grande Wetland

By Martha Pskowski

Maya van Rossum has been the Delaware Riverkeeper for 30 years. As the river’s environmental guardian and the leader of the nonprofit Delaware Riverkeeper Network, van Rossum advocates for the health of the river and its ecosystem from New York to Delaware. Credit: Caroline Gutman/Inside Climate News

Maya van Rossum Wants to Save the World

By Kiley Bense

Shiloh, Alabama residents lead environmental scientist Robert Bullard’s rapid response team on a tour of their flooded community. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

How Alabama Turned to Restrictive Deed Covenants to Ward Off Flooding Claims From Black Residents

By Lee Hedgepeth

People walk down a damaged street in the aftermath of Hurricane Otis in Acapulco, Mexico on Oct. 28, 2023. Credit: Dassaev Tellez Adame/Xinhua via Getty Images

Climate Extremes Slammed Latin America and the Caribbean Last Year. A New UN Report Details the Impacts and Costs

By Bob Berwyn

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