In California, Farmers Test a Method to Sink More Water into Underground Stores
A novel program reimburses landowners for replenishing groundwater, in a bid to add regularity to the state’s boom and bust water system.
By Emma Foehringer Merchant
Water/Drought
Pumped Storage Hydro Could be Key to the Clean Energy Transition. But Where Will the Water Come From?
By Wyatt Myskow
Feds Bet on Paying for Water Conservation to Protect the Colorado River
By Wyatt Myskow
Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes Sprawling Conservation Area in Everglades Watershed
By Amy Green
Answers About Old Gas Sites Repurposed as Injection Wells for Fracking’s Toxic Wastewater May Never Be Fully Unearthed
By Jake Bolster
Scientists Disagree About Drivers of September’s Global Temperature Spike, but It Has Most of Them Worried
By Bob Berwyn
Biden Creates the American Climate Corps, 90 Years After FDR Put 3 Million to Work in National Parks
Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, “Living on Earth”
First Floods, Now Fires: How Neglect and Fraud Hobbled an Alabama Town
By Lee Hedgepeth
The Era of Climate Migration Is Here, Leaders of Vulnerable Nations Say
By Nicholas Kusnetz
A Fracker in Pennsylvania Wants to Take 1.5 Million Gallons a Day From a Small, Biodiverse Creek. Should the State Approve a Permit?
By Jake Bolster
Industrial Plants in Gary and Other Environmental Justice Communities Are Highlighted as Top Emitters
By Aydali Campa, Phil McKenna and Victoria St. Martin
Summer of Record Heat Deals Costly Damage to Texas Water Systems
By Dylan Baddour
Standards Still Murky for Disposing Oilfield Wastewater in Texas Rivers
By Martha Pskowski
The Federal Bureau of Reclamation Announces Reduced Water Cuts for Colorado River States
By Wyatt Myskow
Solar Is Booming in the California Desert, if Water Issues Don’t Get in the Way
By Wyatt Myskow
As the Colorado River Declines, Water Scarcity and the Hunt for New Sources Drive up Rates
By Wyatt Myskow and Emma Peterson
As Water Levels Drop, the Risk of Arsenic Rises
By Melissa Bailey, KFF Health News
Preserving the Cowboy Way of Life
By Emma Peterson
