Last week, the Trump administration approved part of a controversial project to pump groundwater from the Mojave Desert and send it to cities in California. Cadiz, the company promoting the project, ...

Last week, at a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, many countries made commitments to cut back fossil fuel emissions to fight climate change. China announced it would curb emissions by up ...

Earth’s water cycle, as we have known it, is spinning out of balance as a result of climate change and human activities, threatening long-term water security. Last week, the World Meteorological ...

As many communities across the country remove lead water lines following the Flint, Michigan, crisis, there’s concern they may be “leaping from the frying pan into the fire” if they replace those ...

There were discussions, for the first time ever, about the social justice costs of transitioning to a sustainable economy, which requires the extraction of minerals, like cobalt and lithium, that are ...

The U.S. is facing a slow-rolling crisis over access to clean, safe drinking water but lacks a coordinated response to address the root causes of the problems, many of which are aging infrastructure.

The West saw heavy levels of precipitation this past winter in many areas, and that’s good news for water levels in Lake Mead on the Colorado River, the country’s largest reservoir. According to the ...

One rarely hears about someone in the military defying a direct order, but that’s what’s happening in Tucson, Arizona, because of a recent Supreme Court decision. Last May, the Environmental ...

Mexican water law has been undergoing a reform since last year, when a bill was introduced to amend the constitution to make water a human right and change how it is owned and allocated. The bill is ...

Scientists are very concerned about the Atlantic Ocean circulation system that affects weather in huge parts of the world. The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or “AMOC,” appears more ...

The seven states in the Colorado River Basin have been unable to agree on a plan to manage the river’s water, as long-term drought and climate change shrink available supplies. The three states in the ...

Last week, President Trump exercised the first veto of his second term by canceling a clean water project in Colorado that had been approved unanimously by the House and the Senate. The project is ...