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In El Paso, the Rio Grande, with concertina wire and law enforcement along the U.S. side of the border. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Settlement Signed in Texas v. New Mexico Rio Grande Case

By Martha Pskowski

Gina Ramirez, like many Chicago residents, has a lead service line at her home on the Southeast Side (address has been blurred). Credit: Keerti Gopal/Inside Climate News

Chicago Has a Huge Lead Pipe Problem—and We Mapped It

By Keerti Gopal, Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco, Peter Aldhous, Clayton Aldern, Amy Qin

Reporters Keerti Gopal (left) and Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco interview a Chicago resident at his home, which has a water service line made of lead. Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Chicago Sun-Times

How We Mapped Chicago’s Lead Pipe Problem and What We Learned

By Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco, Keerti Gopal, Peter Aldhous, Clayton Aldern, Amy Qin

Colton Wyatt shows off a lead water testing kit at his home in Chicago’s Lincoln Square neighborhood. Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

Lead Pipes Are Everywhere in Chicago. Here’s How to Protect Yourself

By Sophia Kalakailo, City Bureau

The Des Moines River flows through downtown Ottumwa, Iowa. Credit: Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images

The Battle Over Polluted Water Beneath an Iowa Coal Ash Landfill

By Anika Jane Beamer

The Colorado River flows near Parker, Ariz. The Colorado River Indian Tribes want to give the river the same legal rights as a person, taking millennia of cultural values and putting them into law. Credit: Alex Hager/KUNC

The Colorado River Is This Tribe’s ‘Lifeblood,’ Now They Want To Give It the Same Legal Rights as a Person

By Alex Hager, KUNC

Freshly cleaned oysters are seen in Nova Scotia’s Chance Harbour. Credit: Molly MacNaughton/IJB

Sewage Taints Canadian Oysters. Then Americans Eat Them

By Agatha Khishchenko, Andy Lehren, Dori Seeman, Robert Cribb and Molly MacNaughton

People walk a beach along Lake Michigan in Whiting, Ind. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Great Lakes Microplastics Research Could Inform National and Global Policy

By Sarah Mattalian

A view of an industrial harbor off the shores of Lake Superior in Duluth, Minn. Credit: Michael Siluk/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Water Management in Great Lakes States Deserves a Closer Look, Group Says

By Susan Cosier

A pedestrian crosses the Grand Street Bridge over the heavily polluted Newtown Creek in New York City. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Navigating the Troubled Waters of Newtown Creek Means an Environmental Cleanup in Brooklyn and Queens That Will Cost At Least $3.3 Billion

By Jordan Gass-Pooré

The Central Arizona Project has over 300 miles of canals that deliver Colorado River water to Phoenix and other areas. Credit: Jake Bolster/Inside Climate News

Amid Tense Negotiations Over the Colorado River’s Future, Arizona Mayors Unite Against ‘Threat’ to State’s Water

By Wyatt Myskow

The Bråsvellbreen Glacier is seen during an Arctic heat wave in the Svalbard islands on July 7, 2024. Credit: Sebnem Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images

Melting on the Arctic’s Svalbard Islands Shows the Climate Future Is Now

By Bob Berwyn

Supercharged Hurricanes Mean More ‘Ghost Boats’ Haunting Waterways

By Kiley Price

Rifle resident Leslie Robinson and Andrew Klooster, a Colorado field advocate with Earthworks, inspect a geiger counter at a well pad on private property near Parachute, Colo. The gadget keeps track of naturally occurring uranium that resurfaces with oil and gas wastewater.

Can Colorado Recycle Toxic Water from Oil and Gas Drilling Without Increasing Emissions?

Story by Jake Bolster, photos by Lee Pruitt

Downstream of Brenntag’s Durham plant, lead has been detected in the sediment of a creek that flows through Burton Park. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

An Environmental Justice Test Case for Trump’s EPA: A Creek That Smells Like Death

By Lisa Sorg

With machete in hand, Isiah Cruz clears a patch of invasive common reed along the Passaic River’s edge. Credit: Anna Mattson/Inside Climate News

The Slow-Moving Fight to Clean New Jersey’s Most Contaminated River

By Anna Mattson

Woods Hole researchers, Adam Subhas (left) and Chris Murray, conducted a series of lab experiments earlier this year to test the impact of an alkaline substance, known as sodium hydroxide, on copepods in the Gulf of Maine. Credit: Daniel Hentz/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Can We Alter the Ocean to Counter Climate Change Faster? This Experiment Aims to Find Out

By Teresa Tomassoni

Floodwater covers roads following heavy rain on April 4 in Hopkinsville, Ky. Credit: Jason Davis/Getty Images

Atmospheric Rivers May be Diminishing on the West Coast and Surging in the East, Study Finds

By Chad Small

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