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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

An aerial view of the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal in Sunset Park. The terminal will house Empire Wind’s long-term Operations and Maintenance Base. Credit: Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images

New York Offshore Wind Project Allowed to Restart Construction—for Now

By Lauren Dalban

Women sit on a sidewalk along the dried-up riverbed of the Zayanderud in Isfahan, Iran, on Dec. 1, 2025. Credit: Hozi/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images

Iran’s Regime Has Survived War, Sanctions and Uprising. Environmental Crises May Bring It Down.

By Katie Surma

An underwater acoustic camera captures a harbor seal interacting with a tidal turbine in Washington state’s Sequim Bay. Credit: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Underwater Cameras Could Help Unlock America’s Tidal Energy Industry

By Johnny Sturgeon

Sections of the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline are seen at a construction site in Park Rapids, Minn., in 2021. Credit: Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images

New EPA Proposal Would Strip States’ and Tribes’ Authority to Block Oil and Gas Pipelines, Other Infrastructure Projects

By Teresa Tomassoni

Ned Tapa, a Māori leader, paddles down the Whanganui River in New Zealand. Credit: Richard Sidey

‘I Am the River’: How Indigenous Knowledge Reshaped New Zealand’s Law

By Katie Surma

The Port of Wilmington on the Cape Fear River handled about 7 million tons of cargo in 2022. Credit: NC Ports

The Army Corps of Engineers Wants to Dredge the Cape Fear River. Environmentalists Tally the Costs.

By Lisa Sorg

Cattle are seen at a dairy farm in Cochise County, Arizona, on March 1, 2022. Credit: Aydali Campa/Inside Climate News

Arizona Comes to Agreement With Major Dairy Farm to Cut Groundwater Pumping That Is Draining Wells

By Wyatt Myskow

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