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An aerial view of the Port of Wilmington in North Carolina. Credit: NC Ports

North Carolina Regulators Nix $1.2 Billion Federal Proposal to Dredge Wilmington Harbor

By Lisa Sorg

A trained team from the West Coast Large Whale Entanglement Response Program works to free an entangled gray whale off the coast of Orange County, Calif., in December 2017. Credit: West Coast Marine Mammal Stranding Network

Whale Entanglements in Fishing Gear Surge Off U.S. West Coast During Marine Heatwaves

By Teresa Tomassoni

A person shovels out their car from a snow-covered street on Monday in Hoboken, N.J. Credit: Gary Hershorn/Getty Images

How Snowstorms Can Trigger More Dangerous Flooding in New Jersey

By Rambo Talabong

Members of a Māori community perform “karakia” to pay their respects to the carcass of a sperm whale that washed up on the shores of New Brighton, New Zealand, on Nov. 5, 2023. Credit: Sanka Vidanagama/NurPhoto via Getty Images

How a Groundbreaking Indigenous Treaty on Whales’ Rights Could Change National Laws

By Katie Surma

A view of Dow’s Seadrift chemical complex from the Victoria Barge Canal in Texas on Feb. 1. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Texas Alleges ‘Habitual Non-Compliance’ of Wastewater Rules at Dow Chemical Complex 

By Dylan Baddour

A grain elevator is surrounded by floodwater from the Mississippi River on the Iowa-Illinois border in 2023. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Iowa’s Water Crisis Could Help Tip the Scales for Control of US House

By Anika Jane Beamer

“Wild” ice skaters are seen on Maine’s Megunticook Lake in December 2025. Wild skaters seek out frozen water bodies rather than man-made rinks. Credit: Courtesy of Richard Behr

For Maine’s Lakes, Shorter Ice Seasons Mean Loss of Water Quality, Winter Traditions

By Sydney Cromwell

Finless porpoises play in the Yangtze River waters of Yichang City, China, on April 22, 2025. Credit: Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Five Years Into a Fishing Ban, the Yangtze River Is Teeming With Life

By Johnny Sturgeon

Blake Muir and his niece, Jennifer Sullivan, stand near a tank battery on his land in Gonzales County. Data shows it could come under nearly 15 feet of water in a 500-year flood. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

‘A Disaster Waiting to Happen’: How the Fracking Boom Put an Oil Field in the Guadalupe River Floodplain

By Dylan Baddour, Peter Aldhous

An African elephant moves through the Cuando River in Angola. Credit: Kostadin Luchansky/National Geographic

One of Africa’s Most Important Water Sources Just Got Some Very Good News

By Katie Surma

Cars drive over the Central Arizona Canal, which delivers Colorado River water to Central and Southern Arizona, on Dec. 19, 2025. Credit: Kayla Bartkowski/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Colorado River Negotiators Are Nearly Out of Time and Snowpack

By Jake Bolster, Wyatt Myskow

Taylor Register, a water quality specialist with Sound Rivers, samples water from a ditch near White Oaks Farm in North Carolina. Credit: Courtesy of Samantha Krop

A Troubled Hog Farm in Wayne County, North Carolina, Is Hit With a New String of Violations

By Lisa Sorg

With Waters Rising, Pennsylvania’s Historical Treasures Must ‘Adapt or Collapse’

By Kiley Bense

Contractors and attorneys for Chevron watch from above on April 10, 2024 as Hawk Dunlap, Daniel Charest and Sarah Stogner (from left) inspect an excavated well on April 10 at Antina Ranch in Crane County, Texas. Credit: Mitch Borden/Marfa Public Radio

New Lawsuit Claims ‘Catastrophic Impacts’ From Permian Basin Injection Wells

By Martha Pskowski

Farmer Ryan Rogers checks on a truck which has dumped food waste into a pit that feeds an anaerobic digester at Homestead Dairy in Plymouth, Indiana on July 13, 2015. The family-run farm invested in a biogas recovery system which transforms cow manure and other waste into enough electricity to power 1,000 homes. Credit: Mira Oberman /AFP via Getty Images

Are Incentives for Fuel Made from Livestock Manure Leaving Small Farmers Behind?

By Blanca Begert

Stretched Thin, Iowa Agency Issues Few Fines for Manure Pollution

By Nina B. Elkadi, Anika Jane Beamer

A water pipeline from the T-Bar Ranch terminates at this water tower on the western side of Midland, Texas, where oil pump jacks operate. Credit: Paul Ratje/Inside Climate News

A Small Oil Company Polluted Midland’s Water Reserve. The Cleanup Has Dragged on for Years.

By Martha Pskowski

The Iowa State Capitol in Des Moines. Credit: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images

Cleaner Water a Hope, Not a Given, for Iowa in 2026

By Anika Jane Beamer

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