Introducing the Blue Planet Report, a new quarterly feature unveiling the biggest water stories and trends shaping the world today. Summer, in the popular imagination, was the carefree season, a ...

UN climate conference, which will be held in Belém, Brazil, in November, has acquired greater depth in its third decade. From ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Atop one of the world’s tallest freshwater sand dunes in northern Michigan’s Benzie County there’s a place to marvel–dawn or dusk–at the magnificence of the Lake Michigan shoreline. The view ...

EPA wants to increase the biofuels mandate to produce more American energy. House passes bill to rescind already approved USAID funding. BLM says a 5,000-well oil and gas project in Wyoming will not ...

The restoration of high-elevation wetlands and Indigenous water systems in southern Ecuador has brought stability to water-scarce communities. To keep up with farmers’ water needs, Morocco has pledged ...

Children in an informal settlement in Kabul, in a photo from 2013, operate a hand pump. Photo © EU – EC/ECHO/Pierre Prakash Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan and ...