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"Carbon Majors" Are Wringing Out the West to Dry

A "Dangerous, Chilling Effect" on Coastal States?

Are U.S. Water Systems Being Targeted by Iran?

Was Water a Factor in the Diarrhea Outbreak?

The Plan to Move Water from the Desert to Cities

Got Milk? It Might Have Less Protein and Fat

The "Flamingo Revolution”

A “Widespread Collapse of American Agriculture”

Some in the West Pay High Prices for Water, While Others Get It for Free

A Mushrooming Industry That Serves the Dead

Data Centers…in the Sky?

Your Computer Could One Day Run on Mushrooms

Watering Down Water Protections

Trees Know an Eclipse Is Coming Before it Starts

Could Climate Change Make Rice Unhealthy?

Weather Forecasting Could Become an Unsafe Free-for-All

The Legacy of the First Green President

Giving AI the Side-Eye

Ratting Out Traffickers

Did Climate Change Sink a Superyacht?

What’s the Climate Record of Kamala Harris?

In This State, the Kids Are All Right

Are Banks Banking on Climate Chaos?

Cyberattacks Are Striking Water Systems

The Benefits of Noisy Neighborhoods

The European Union Moves to Criminalize Ecocide

How Whales Might Help Us Communicate with Extraterrestrials

Could This Discovery Be a Climate Game Changer?

Could a Houseplant Detect Toxins in Water?

Why Some Trees Are Worsening Air Pollution

Telling Plastic to Fork Off

Planting Rocks to Crush Climate Change

Your Next Winter Coat Could Help Store Carbon

Where’s Crawford Lake—and Why Should You Care?

They Knew the Dangers—But Hid Them from the Public

How Climate Change Means More Pirates

The Looming Threat of “Phosphogeddon”

Red to Grow, Blue to Flow

One of the Winners in the Midterms? The Climate.

A Drone You Can Eat?

A New Water Supply for Colorado?

Turning Wind Turbines into Gummy Bears

Too Little Water in California? How About Too Much.

How Aspirin Can Fight the Pain of Climate Change

Can We Worm Our Way Out of Our Plastic Pollution Problem?

How Golfers Can “Eat Their Greens”

A Vegetable That Can Clean Drinking Water

Putin’s War in Ukraine Freezes Arctic Research

The Environmental Consequences of the War in Ukraine

Generating Power While Saving Water

How Inmates Are Saving an Iconic American Landscape—and Themselves

Dryland: Farmers in Some of the Toughest Places to Do Agriculture Are the Ones Innovating for Climate Change