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Water

An oil drilling operation on the banks of the Red Bluff Reservoir in Reeves County, Texas is seen on May 27, 2020. Credit: Justin Hamel

Texas Oil and Gas Companies Drill With River Water During Extreme Drought

By Martha Pskowski

The Allegheny River and the Monongahela River join to form the Ohio River in downtown Pittsburgh. Credit: Nicolas DeSarno/Pexels

Should Pittsburgh’s Water Stay Public? Residents Will Get to Vote on It

By Carrie Klein

Skiers descend Arapahoe Basin Ski Area in Colorado on May 4. Snowpack across the mountains that supply the Colorado River is far below normal for this time of year. Forecasts call for 55 percent of average runoff into Lake Powell, the nation's second-largest reservoir. Credit: Alex Hager/KUNC

A Dry Winter on the Colorado River Has Big Reservoirs on Track for Trouble

By Alex Hager, KUNC

Workers cap an orphaned well near Oil City, La. on March 8, 2023. Credit: Cooper Neill for The Washington Post via Getty Images

Scientists Map Where Orphan Wells Pose Threats to Aquifers

By Martha Pskowski

Leonardo Buria, the National Parks Northern Patagonia Regional Director of Conservation, holds up a ruler that in 2007 was completely covered by water in Laguna Blanca National Park. Credit: Facundo Scordo

Five Patagonian Lakes Are Rapidly Drying, Study Shows

By Andrés Muedano

Staff at the International Bird Rescue in Los Angeles examine a sick brown pelican suffering from domoic acid poisoning. Credit: Ariana-Gastelum, courtesy of the International Bird Rescue

California Toxic Algal Bloom Blamed for Months-long Marine Life Poisoning

By Teresa Tomassoni

USGS scientists take streamflow measurements along the Mississippi River in St. Louis. This information is critical in making flood predictions and response plans. Credit: Jennifer LaVista/USGS

USGS Water Data Centers May Soon Close, Threatening States’ Water Management

By Wyatt Myskow

A pipeline marker is seen at the site of Enbridge Energy’s Line 5 near the Straits of Mackinac between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. Credit: Tony Webster/CC BY 2.0 via Flickr

Citing Trump Emergency Order, Army Corps Expedites Review for Line 5 Oil Pipeline in Great Lakes’ Wetlands

By Carrie Klein

Nearly half of the tap water in the U.S. is contaminated with toxic PFAS. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

EPA Says It Will Act on PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals.’ Advocates Raise Red Flags

By Keerti Gopal

Invasive Asian carp leap out of the Illinois River in Bath, Ill. Credit: Benjamin Lowy/Getty Images

Illinois Delays a Project Meant to Keep Asian Carp Out of the Great Lakes

By Susan Cosier

Margo Denke, co-founder of the group Friends of Hondo Canyon, surveys a stretch of Commissioners Creek on her ranch in Bandera County, Texas. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

In Booming Central Texas, Wastewater Is Polluting Rivers and Streams

By Dylan Baddour

Laurene Allen won the 2025 Goldman Environmental Prize for her activism with contaminated in her hometown of Merrimack, N.H. Credit: Goldman Environmental Prize

She Galvanized Her Community After a Company Contaminated It With ‘Forever Chemicals’

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

A technician with North American Weather Consultants works on a cloud seeding generator in Ogden, Utah on March 20. Utah has the nation's largest program, and nearby states are watching to see how it adds to the water supply. Credit: Alex Hager/KUNC

Snowflakes, Death Threats and Dollar Signs: Cloud Seeding Is at a Crossroads

By Alex Hager, KUNC

Hurricane Helene left a trail of destruction through North Carolina, including along this section of the French Broad River. Credit: Jack Henderson

National Park Units Dot America’s Most Endangered Rivers List

By Kurt Repanshek, National Parks Traveler

Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari receives the Goldman Environmental Prize for her decades-long fight to protect the Marañón River in Peru. Credit: Goldman Environmental Prize

Rights of Nature Defender Wins Goldman Prize for Precedent-Setting Work Protecting an Imperiled River

By Katie Surma

Tudor Morgan, with HX Expeditions, passes a recording device called a SoundTrap to Heidi Ahonen, a bioacoustician who has launched the first long-term project to monitor whales in the Gerlache Strait using passive acoustic monitoring. Credit: Teresa Tomassoni/Inside Climate News

Listening for Whale Sounds 1,000 feet Deep in the Antarctic Ocean

By Teresa Tomassoni

Melting ice is seen in the bay of Nuuk, Greenland, on March 10. Credit: Odd Andersen/AFP via Getty Images

Surviving the Thaw: Greenland’s Inuit Grapple with Their Melting World

By Maddy Keyes

A mother manatee swims with a calf near Palm Beach, Fla. Credit: Sam Farkas/NOAA

Federal Judge Orders Florida to Address Pollution That Led to Manatee Deaths

By Amy Green

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