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Boaters in a kayak off the coast of La Jolla Shores, California, in December 2025. Credit: Kevin Carter/Getty Images

Ocean Warming Breaks Record for Ninth Straight Year

By Johnny Sturgeon

A view of restored oxbow wetland in Johnston, Iowa. Credit: Anika Jane Beamer/Inside Climate News

To Save An Endangered Prairie Fish, Dried-up Iowa Wetlands Get New Life

By Anika Jane Beamer

Libby Jewett, the founding director of NOAA’s ocean acidification program, retired last year amid widespread layoffs across government agencies. Credit: Danielle Pease

How Trump Derailed a NOAA Pioneer’s Move From Climate Impacts to Solutions

By Marianne Lavelle

An aerial view shows multiple barges on the water.

The Loosely Regulated Petrochemical Barge Industry Is Commandeering a Texas River

By Salina Arredondo, Public Health Watch

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes speaks at an election event on Nov. 2, 2024, in Phoenix. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Arizona’s AG Is Clear-Eyed About the State’s Energy Costs and Water Scarcity—but Can It Help Her Win Reelection?

By Wyatt Myskow

Shedd Aquarium scientist Andy Kough measures a queen conch at a survey site near Port Everglades. Credit: Aubri Keith

Ten Million Corals Are in the Path of a Federal Dredging Project in Florida

By Teresa Tomassoni

An adult and child look out over the bluebelt on a cloudy day.

Why New York City Is Spending Millions on ‘Bluebelts’

By Lauren Dalban

A general view of the New York is seen behind the Hackensack River alongside wetlands in Secaucus, New Jersey, on Jan. 11, 2021. Credit: Islam Dogru/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

As Trump Rolls Back Protections For Wetlands, New Jersey Maintains a Higher Standard

By Rambo Talabong

A shellfish harvester pours out small littleneck clams from a net at the Winnegance oyster farm on the New Meadows River in West Bath, Maine. Credit: Brianna Soukup/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images

Maine’s Shellfish Harvesters Are Caught up in Climate-Related Closures

By Ben Seal

Plant Barry’s toxic coal ash lagoon is more than a mile across at some points and is surrounded by the Mobile River, located just feet from its edge. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

How Alabama Power Has Left the ‘American Amazon’ at Risk

By Lee Hedgepeth

Demonstrators attend a Stand Up for Science rally to highlight the critical role of science in public health, environmental stewardship and education at the Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco on March 7. Credit: Gabrielle Lurie/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images

The Year in Climate: Attacks on Science, the Start of Trump’s Second Term and Surging Electricity Demand Foreshadow a Future Filled with Uncertainty

By Dan Gearino, ICN Staff

FloNergia Systems is among the water-focused startup companies in the Sustainable Water Tech Accelerator cohort, a joint project from Chicago manufacturing incubator mHUB and Current. Credit: Courtesy of FloNergia

In the Great Lakes Region, a Push to Grow Water-Focused Startups Amid Federal Funding Uncertainty

By Leigh Giangreco

Yvonne Sorovacu (right), Hannah Hohman (center) and Jay Beal monitor a creek for signs of contamination from the Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill in Belle Vernon, Pa.

The ‘Toxic Cocktail’ Brewing in Pennsylvania’s Waterways

Story by Kiley Bense, photos by Scott Goldsmith

Sugar kelp (Saccharina latissima) stands tall and creates foundational habitat. Credit: Shane Farrell

Maine’s Once Abundant Kelp Forests Face an Array of Growing Threats

By Pragathi Ravi

The shore of Mill Point Park is located blocks from City Hall in Hampton, Va. The city is building a sandy marsh over the rocks that currently line the shore, and experimenting with new types of protective sills to gently buffer incoming waves. Credit: Phred Dvorak/Inside Climate News

Can a Flood-Prone Coastal City Learn to Live With Water?

By Phred Dvorak

People navigate small boats through the Lekkersluis canal in Amsterdam. Credit: Nick Gammon/AFP via Getty Images

After Hurricane Katrina, a New Orleans Architect Turned to the Dutch to Learn to Live With Water

By Phred Dvorak

Costa Rican border patrol roam the waters of Térraba-Sierpe National Wetland. In the last decade, authorities have arrested 159 subsidized vessels for illegal infractions ranging from illegal fishing to narco-trafficking. Credit: Ministry of Public Security

How a Nation Famous for Marine Conservation Is Bankrolling Its Own Destruction

By Johnny Sturgeon

Oceanic whitetip sharks just received the highest of protections offered by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. All international trade of the species is now strictly prohibited. Credit: Renata Romeo

Sharks and Rays Gain Landmark Protections as Nations Move to Curb International Trade

By Teresa Tomassoni

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