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Gary Wockner, founder of the nonprofit Save the Colorado, stands in front of Boulder Creek on Oct. 22 in Boulder, Colo. Wockner's group has been fighting an expansion of the Gross Reservoir west of Boulder. Credit: Michael Kodas/Inside Climate News

Federal Court Ruling on a Reservoir Expansion Could Have Big Implications for the Colorado River

By Wyatt Myskow

Blooms of cyanobacteria, like the one pictured in California’s Lake Elsinore, spiked to record levels in the Finger Lakes of New York this year, endangering swimmers, dogs, birds and public drinking water. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

Toxic Blooms in New York’s Finger Lakes Set Record in 2024

By Peter Mantius

The Rio Grande winds through the Chihuahuan Desert in far west Texas. Diversions for agriculture and cities have reduced the flow by at least 70 percent compared to historical flow levels. Credit: Omar Ornelas

Holding Out Hope On the Drying Rio Grande

By Martha Pskowski

Chicago city code required homes to install lead pipes up until 1986, resulting in the city having approximately 400,000 lead service lines. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

EPA Gives Chicago Decades to Replace Lead Pipes, Leaving Communities at Risk

By Nina B. Elkadi

In 2023, a North Atlantic right whale was spotted off the coast of Georgia with rope lodged in its mouth. Credit: Georgia DNR/NOAA Fisheries

The Futures of Right Whales and Lobstermen Are Entangled. Could High-Tech Gear Help Save Them Both?

By Kiley Price

Effigy Mounds National Monument museum technician Sheila Oberreuter walks along coir logs in the Sny Magill Unit of the park along the Mississippi River near Clayton, Iowa. Credit: Mark Hoffman/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

On the Wisconsin-Iowa Border, the Mississippi River Is Eroding Sacred Indigenous Mounds

By Madeline Heim and Frank Vaisvilas, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

A mold filled room sits in an abandoned house in west Lumberton, N.C. on Oct. 16, 2018. Two years after Hurricane Matthew, Florence damaged homes in the same neighborhood. Many residents never returned. Credit: Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images

ReBuild NC Has a Deficit of Over $150 Million With 1,600 People Still Displaced by Hurricanes Matthew and Florence

By Lisa Sorg

Alizee Zimmermann applies antibiotic paste to a star coral affected by Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease in Turks and Caicos. Credit: Patricia Guardiola Slattery

Biobanking Corals: One Woman’s Mission to Save Coral Genetics in Turks and Caicos to Rebuild Reefs of the Future

By Teresa Tomassoni

An aerial view of damaged houses after Hurricane Helene made landfall on Sept. 28 in Horseshoe Beach, Fla. Credit: Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images

Stronger Storms Like Helene Are More Likely as the Climate Warms

By Sean Sublette

An Army National Guard member assists a resident with potable water in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene on Sept. 29 in Old Fort, N.C. Credit: Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images

N.C. Health Officials Issue Guidelines for Thousands of Potentially Flooded Private Wells 

By Lisa Sorg

Orcas swim off the coast of Crystal Cove State Park on Jan. 9 in Newport Beach, Calif. Credit: Mark Rightmire/Orange County Register via Getty Images

Killer Whales in Chile Have Begun Preying on Dolphins. What Does It Mean?

By Humberto Basilio

A view of the Rawlins, Wyoming water treatment facility. Credit: Dustin Bleizeffer/WyoFile

Budget-Strapped Wyoming Towns Race for Federal Funds To Fix Aging Water, Sewer Systems

By Dustin Bleizeffer, WyoFile

The increasing number and severity of natural disasters like wildfires and hurricanes have cast home insurance markets into turmoil, leading to an explosive rise in premiums. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images via Grist

Climate Impacts Put Insurance Commissioner Races in the Spotlight

By Jesse Nichols, Grist

An aerial view shows waves rolling along the shore of Lake Michigan in Whiting, Indiana. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Joliet, Illinois, Plans to Source Its Future Drinking Water From Lake Michigan. Will Other Cities Follow?

By Nina B. Elkadi

Residents watch as the Kickapoo River jumps its banks and floods the small town of Viola, Wisconsin, in August 2018. Credit: Tim Hundt/Vernon Reporter

The Fate of Thousands of US Dams Hangs in the Balance, Leaving Rural Communities With Hard Choices

By Madeline Heim, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Tyrik Jr., 3, and Naylani Davis, 6, play with a water fountain at ResilienCity Park on Aug. 27 in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Un parque infantil ayuda a controlar las inundaciones en una histórica ciudad de Nueva Jersey

By Victoria St. Martin

Tyrik Jr., 3, and Naylani Davis, 6, play with a water fountain at ResilienCity Park on Aug. 27 in Hoboken, New Jersey.

How a Children’s Playground Is Helping With Flood Mitigation in a Small, Historic New Jersey City

By Victoria St. Martin

Eric Schott, a marine researcher at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, and graduate student Ronita Sequeira set up nets to capture small fish and other aquatic organisms along the Middle Branch of the Patapsco River in South Baltimore. Credit: Aman Azhar/Inside Climate News

Baltimore Is Investing in Wetlands Restoration, a Climate Line of Defense

By Aman Azhar

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