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Allyson Gray, of the Pamunkey Indian Tribe, strolls the land called Dragon Run, swampy land that was inhabited by indigenous groups who fled persecution in the early days of American colonialism on Aug. 23, 2024, near Center Cross, Va. Credit: Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Chesapeake Bay Program Says No to Full Membership for Virginia Tribal Nations—for Now

By Aman Azhar

A construction crew completes a lead service line replacement at a Chicago home in June 2023. Credit: Vanessa Bly/NRDC

Chicago’s Plan to Replace Lead Pipes Puts It 30 Years Behind the Federal Deadline

By Keerti Gopal, Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco

An aerial view of the Cahaba River as it flows through central Alabama. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Alabama Environmental Groups Secure Rare Win in Fight to Update Water Toxicity Standards

By Dennis Pillion

A view of the Des Moines River as it flows through downtown Des Moines, Iowa. Credit: Clay Masters/Iowa Public Radio

Pollution, Not Drought, Prompts Lawn-Watering Ban in Des Moines

By Anika Jane Beamer

A green sea turtle rests in the Galapagos. Credit: Carlos Espinosa/Charles Darwin Foundation

At UN Ocean Conference, Nations and Funders Seek to Create and Expand Large-Scale Marine Protected Areas

By Teresa Tomassoni

A proposed data center for Equinix Inc. in Minooka could use 30 percent of the municipality’s allocated drinking water. Credit: Equinix

As Data Centers Proliferate Across Illinois, Communities Grapple with How to Supply the Necessary Water

By Susan Cosier

The image shows the sun near the horizon, reflecting off the water

Chesapeake Bay Health Slips in 2025 Report Card as Persistent Challenges Threaten Long-Term Gains

By Aman Azhar

A crew works to construc a sea wall to reduce the risk of coastal flooding and erosion due to sea level rise on March 4 in La Baule, France. Credit: Loic Venance/AFP via Getty Images

New Climate Study Highlights Dire Sea Level Warnings

By Bob Berwyn

Camp Hill, a majority-Black town of around 1,000 residents, is located in east Alabama’s Tallapoosa County. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

In Majority-Black Camp Hill, a Young Mayor Fights for Water

By Lee Hedgepeth

Costa Rica President Rodrigo Chaves Robles speaks at the U.N. Ocean Conference on June 9 in Nice, France. Credit: IISD/ENB - Kiara Worth

‘We’ve Treated it as a Global Waste Dump’: Costa Rica’s President Calls for Action on the Ocean

By Teresa Tomassoni

Princess Angelika Lātūfuipeka Tukuʻaho from the Kingdom of Tonga speaks at the One Ocean Science Congress on June 4 ahead of the U.N. Ocean Conference in Nice, France. Credit: Stephane Lesbats/Ifremer

Tonga Poised to Be the First Country to Recognize Rights of Whales

By Katie Surma

An aerial view of the Pattison Co. quarry in Garnavillo, Iowa. Credit: Pattison Co.

As an Eastern Iowa Quarry Seeks to Quadruple Its Water Use, Residents Urge the State to Intervene

By Anika Jane Beamer

A woman stands with a bucket of mussels in front of the sea at Magoito Beach in Portugal. Credit: Patricia De Melo Moreira/AFP via Getty Images

The World’s Oceans Are a ‘Ticking Time Bomb,’ Reaching Dangerous Acidification Levels  Earlier Than Scientists Thought

By Georgina Gustin

Workers handle a fishing net next to a commercial trawler docked at the port of Nea Michaniona in northern Greece on May 22. Credit: Sakis Mitrolidis/AFP via Getty Images

UN Ocean Conference Opens With a Call to Defend the Deep Sea

By Teresa Tomassoni

WHOI marine biologist Amy Apprill conducts a visual survey of a degraded coral reef in St. John to count the number of young corals that have recently settled on the reef. Credit: Dan Mele/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

The Race to Engineer Coral Reef Solutions in the U.S. Virgin Islands

By Teresa Tomassoni

An industrialized swine farm in Wayne County, N.C., is covered in flood water during Hurricane Matthew in 2016. Credit: Rick Dove

Funding Shortfalls Hamper North Carolina’s Program to Buy Out Hog Farms in or Near Floodplains

By Lisa Sorg

A view of the area where the local nonprofit Rockaway Initiative for Sustainability and Equity is working in Far Rockaway, a neighborhood in Queens, New York City. Credit: Lauren Dalban/Inside Climate News

Rockaway is a New York Coastal Community Trying to Fight Erosion–and Then EPA Cancelled Funding

By Lauren Dalban

Fish swim over a reef affected by coral bleaching from extreme heat on May 8, 2024, in Trat, Thailand. Credit: Sirachai Arunrugstichai/Getty Images

Some Hopeful News About the Future of the World’s Corals

Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, “Living on Earth”

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