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The steady increase in harmful algal blooms has spurred residents and officials around Owasco Lake to develop proposed enforceable rules to minimize the phosphorous and nitrogen runoff from farms in their watershed. Credit: New York Department of Environmental Conservation

Algal Blooms Ravaged New York’s Finger Lakes During Final Week of August

By Peter Mantius

A house sits empty as the result of a buyout program to relocate residents out of flood prone neighborhoods in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Credit: Madeline Gray/The Washington Post via Getty Images

South Carolina Is Considered a Model for ‘Managed Retreat’ From Coastal Areas Threatened by Climate Change

By Daniel Shailer

A residential area is seen flooded during a winter storm in Queens, New York on Dec. 23, 2022. Credit: Fatih Aktas/Anadolu via Getty Images

NYC Environmental Justice Activists Feel Ignored by the City and the Army Corps on Climate Projects

By Lauren Dalban

The Cape Fear River has been contaminated with forever chemicals, such as PFAS and 1,4-Dioxane from industrial dischargers upstream. Credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images

Nonprofit Law Center Asks EPA to Take Over Water Permitting in N.C.

By Lisa Sorg

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visits Tonga for the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting. Credit: United Nations/Kiara Worth

Pacific Islands Climate Risk Growing as Sea Level Rise Accelerates

By Bob Berwyn

Glacial water streams down rocks in California’s Hoover Wilderness south of Leavitt Lake. Credit: Bing Lin/Inside Climate News

Water Issues Confronting Hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail Trickle Down Into the Rest of California

By Bing Lin

An aerial view of a toxic algae bloom at the Port Mayaca Lock and Dam on Lake Okeechobee in 2018. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

New Lake Okeechobee Plan Aims for More Water for the Everglades, Less Toxic Algae

By Amy Green

The Seagrass Species That Is Not So Slowly Taking Over the World

By Bing Lin

A member of the Coral Restoration Foundation brings up threatened coral transplants from the Florida Keys waters for safe keeping on land during a marine heatwave on July 24, 2023 near Islamorada, Florida. Credit: Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

New Federal Report Details More of 2023’s Extreme Climate Conditions

By Bob Berwyn

The Colorado River Indian Tribes have the right to divert 662,402 acre-feet of water per year from the Colorado River for use on their lands in Arizona. Congress recently granted the tribes authority to lease some of this water to entities elsewhere in the state. Credit: Brett Walton/Circle of Blue

Some of Arizona’s Most Valuable Water Could Soon Hit the Market

By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue

A worker climbs out of the walkway inside Hazel, the tunnel boring machine, on April 19, 2023 in Alexandria, Virginia. Credit: Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Images

After $615 Million and 16 Months of Tunneling, Alexandria, Virginia, Is Close to Fixing Its Sewage Overflow Problem

By Sarah Vogelsong

People cast their fishing lines into the Colorado River in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. Credit: Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Springtime Rain Crucial for Getting Wintertime Snowmelt to the Colorado River, Study Finds

By Jake Bolster

A view of Baltimore near the Harbor on a dry day when residents experience more sewer backups in their homes and basements than on rainy days because of leaky, cracked pipes in the sewer mainline. Credit: Visions of America/Joseph Sohm/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

As Baltimore’s Sewer System Buckles Under Extreme Weather, City Refuses to Help Residents With Cleanup Efforts

By Aman Azhar

Robert Shipp, 75, of Bastrop, sweats while receiving treatment from Austin-Travis County EMS first responders inside an ambulance during a 102 degree day in Del Valle, Texas, on July 7, 2023. According to the EMS crew, he passed out while searching for car parts under the hot sun. Credit: Joe Timmerman/The Texas Tribune

Texas Likely Undercounting Heat-Related Deaths

By Yuriko Schumacher, Emily Foxhall, Alejandra Martinez, Martha Pskowski, Dylan Baddour

A person walks through a flooded street caused by the rain and storm surge from Tropical Storm Debby on Monday in Cedar Key, Florida. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Debby Drenched the Southeast. Climate Change Is Making Storms Like This Even Wetter

By Amy Green, Lisa Sorg

Explorarory wells have damaged the water flow at Ha’Kamwe’, a hot spring sacred to the Hualapai Nation in Wikieup, Arizona. Credit: Ash Ponders/Earthjustice

Tribe Sues Interior Department Over Approval of Arizona Lithium Project

By Wyatt Myskow

Heat affects corals by breaking down their relationship with the microscopic algae living inside them. When waters are too warm the corals expel the algae and turn white, a process called bleaching. Credit: Katey Lesneski/NOAA

For Florida Corals, Unprecedented Marine Heat Prompts New Restoration Strategy—On Shore

By Amy Green

On Feb. 24, 2018, the Argentine Coast Guard discovered the Jing Yuan 626 fishing illegally within Argentina’s EEZ. Here, an Argentine Coast Guard member watches as Jing Yuan 626 and several other foreign fishing vessels crowd around during a pursuit. Credit: Javier Giannattasio

Taking Over from the Inside: China’s Growing Reach Into Local Waters

By Ian Urbina, Pete McKenzie and Milko Schvartzman

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