Not so terribly long ago the International Energy Agency issued one of the early century’s most optimistic projections for the environment, human health, and water quality. It declared 2013 the year ...

Ethiopia announced the completion of a new hydropower dam on the Nile River, a project Egypt has called an “existential threat” to its own water supply. ● Extreme heat in France and Switzerland has ...

The Rundown President Trump’s budget bill targets a few water projects while eliminating some climate and environment programs. Agencies move to constrain environmental reviews under NEPA. EPA says it ...

A new report identifies global drought hotspots since 2023 and outlines vulnerabilities, impacts, causes, and response strategies. Some 60,000 residents in northeastern France are under a tap water ...

To address global chemical pollution of water, air, and soils, the United Nations has announced the formation of a new Intergovernmental Science-Policy Panel. A new study identifies naturally ...

“The existential threat that we’re facing is not one or two degrees of climate change in 2100, because we’ll solve all that. And we’ll solve all that in the next decade or two by the innovation that ...

It’s an issue set to affect residents across all Great Lakes states and provinces at a time when federal protections for Great Lakes water are being slashed. Data Centers Map has been tracking data ...

Sea level rise is causing ghost forests to expand along the east coast, with hotspots in New Jersey, Maryland, and North Carolina. Salt marshes are migrating to take the place of wetland forests, ...

Each year it is expected, and yet the shock is fresh when waters cascade from Mendenhall Lake toward homes. Residents were taken by surprise again when the Mendenhall River overtopped last August and ...

Key Takeaways: Shared by seven states and Mexico, the Colorado Basin provides about 40 million Americans with a portion of their drinking water and irrigates up to 5.5 million acres. It is home to ...

I was a very young cat, just turned 14 years old, when 20 million Americans celebrated the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970. Schools closed where I was raised in White Plains, N.Y., to give students ...

Glen Canyon Dam is operating at 60 percent of its hydroelectric capacity. Hydropower generation will likely shut down when Lake Powell’s elevation drops below 3,490 feet. Currently the lake is at ...