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Border buoys are installed in the Rio Grande as it runs through Brownsville on March 6. Credit: Michael Gonzalez

Border Communities Remain in the Dark About Federal Government’s Billion-Dollar Buoy Project

By Martha Pskowski

The photo show workers in hard hats and reflective vests in a trench with equipment.

Replacing Toxic Lead Pipes Could Drive Job Creation in Illinois, Report Finds

By Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco

A pipe discharges liquid waste from Tesla’s lithium refinery plant into a ditch on Feb. 13 in Robstown, Texas. Credit: Steve Ray/Nueces County Drainage District No. 2

South Texas Officials Didn’t Know Tesla Was Discharging Lithium Refinery Wastewater Into Local Ditch

By Arcelia Martin

Corpus Christi City Manager Peter Zanoni speaks during a City Council meeting on Tuesday. Source: City of Corpus Christi livestream

Corpus Christi Cuts Timeline to Disaster as Abbott Issues Emergency Orders

By Dylan Baddour

Corpus Christi’s largest remaining reservoir, Lake Texana, is currently 55 percent full and projected to hit 30 percent this summer. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Water Shortage May Hit Corpus Christi Within Weeks

By Dylan Baddour

A National Park Service ranger conducts a walking tour through Shark Valley in Everglades National Park on April 17, 2025. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Everglades Restoration Also Helps Save the Planet from Climate Change, Study Finds

By Amy Green

Upper Skagit Tribal members harvest Baker River sockeye salmon at the Skagit River confluence in Washington. Credit: Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission

Habitat Loss Is Eroding Tribal Sovereignty

By Johnny Sturgeon

The Snake River flows through Brownlee Dam along the Idaho-Oregon border. Credit: Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Can Hydropower Ride the Wave of the Energy Boom?

By Dan Gearino

Cows wait to be milked at a dairy farm in Escalon, Calif. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

California Water Board Will Soon Release a New Rule to Limit Water Pollution From Dairies in the State

By Blanca Begert

A water desalination plant is seen in Ras al-Khair along the Gulf coast in eastern Saudi Arabia on March 30, 2023. Credit: Fayez Nureldine/AFP via Getty Images

Attacks on Middle East Desalination Plants Highlight Risks of Near-Total Dependence on ‘Fossil Fuel Water’

By Phil McKenna

Early morning sunlight hits canyon walls on Lake Powell in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area on July 10, 2025 in Page, Arizona. Lake Powell, a critical Colorado River reservoir, is only at a third of its capacity as drought conditions in the Southwest worsen. Credit: Rebecca Noble via Getty Images

States Blast Federal Playbook of Potential Colorado River Options 

Scott Franz, KUNC

Stacey Greer has been filling jugs of water from her tap in Cadiz, Ohio, to test them for contaminants. Credit: Julie Grant/The Allegheny Front

How Extreme Weather and Aging Infrastructure Led to Months of ‘Musty’ Water in One Ohio Village

By Julie Grant, The Allegheny Front

James Dodson is looking at the camera with a serious expression. On the table in front of him are maps and documents. Behind him are windows, the shades open, trees beyond them.

After a Decade of Missteps, a Texas City Careens Toward a Water-Shortage Catastrophe

By Dylan Baddour

A worker removes sargassum from the shore of Playa del Carmen Beach in Quintana Roo, Mexico, on June 18, 2025. Credit: Elizabeth Ruiz/AFP via Getty Images

Why Beaches Are Swamped With Sargassum, the Stinky Seaweed Menace

Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, Living on Earth

A creek flows near a public recreation center in Durham, N.C., where chemicals are seeping into the waterway about a half-mile upstream. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

A Global Chemical Giant Racks Up Violations in Durham, N.C., Where Drinking Water for a Million Is Threatened

By Lisa Sorg

Water quality expert Bob Bowcock tests a creek for cancer-causing PFAS “forever chemicals” at a property in Dalton, Ga., on June 12, 2025. Credit: Issam Ahmed/AFP via Getty Images

Former EPA Staff Detail Expanding Pollution Risks Under Trump

By Liza Gross

Acropora corals stick out of the water during low tide on Nov. 27, 2021, in Tatakoto, French Polynesia. Credit: Alexis Rosenfeld/Getty Images

US Government Is Accelerating Coral Reef Collapse, Scientists Warn

By Johnny Sturgeon

Emperor penguins are only found in Antarctica and evolved over millions of years to live with polar ice, a true sentinel species for global warming. Credit: Peter Fretwell

Satellites Reveal New Climate Threat to Emperor Penguins

By Bob Berwyn

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