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 ...

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 ...

The second tropical cyclone to hit southern China this month continues to drop heavy rain while also damaging cropland, public infrastructure, and homes. The fate of the Salween River, a target for ...

This story was originally published by the Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center. Sean Fagan, a fellow with the University of Alaska Southeast and the Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center, ...

ICIMOD researchers expect a monsoon season of “intensifying risks” for India, Pakistan, Nepal, and the Tibetan plateau. That means a higher likelihood of extreme heat, heavy rain, landslides, floods, ...

The nonprofit Conservation Fund acquired nearly 8,000 acres of land near Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp, protecting the ecosystem against a proposed titanium mine. A decade after the U.S. EPA updated its ...

The long-term drying of the American Southwest poses a gathering and measurable threat to hydropower generation in the Colorado River basin. Should Lake Mead, the reservoir formed by Hoover Dam, ...

White House nominates Ted Cooke to led the federal government’s western water agency. Colorado River runoff forecast continues to worsen. Army Corps cancels the environmental review of a Utah mine ...

Near Houston, an LLC’s request to withdraw nearly the entirety of a local aquifer’s water capacity has sparked outrage from residents and officials. A new law went into effect last week in the United ...

The Trump administration proposed this month to allow coal-fired power plants to pour more climate-changing gases into the atmosphere. The Environmental Protection Agency also wants to shred 35 years ...