Explore the impact of USGS cuts on water monitoring and the potential loss of vital contaminant data for millions.

Wealthy nations are failing to provide adequate financing for poorer countries contending with climate adaptation crises, a new United Nations report finds. ● Mexico’s Lake Texcoco, once nearly ...

Explore the impact of Michigan funding cuts on conservation efforts in northern Michigan and the challenges faced by local organizations.

The town of Aurora, Illinois, has issued a moratorium on data center development, as momentum builds for other nearby communities to follow suit. ● A controversial fish farm project in the Maumee ...

Puerto Rico’s water agency may have violated the U.S. Constitution by failing to address one town’s eight-year water crisis, a federal appeals court ruled. ● The construction of 60,000 homes in the ...

And lastly, EPA prepares to permit abandoned hardrock mine cleanups under a new Good Samaritan law. “If you were a nonprofit or a county with a serious water pollution issue coming out of an old set ...

USDA forecasts the largest U.S. corn planting, by acreage, since the Great Depression, and record production. ● At the same time, the EIA notes that U.S. ethanol exports are at a record high, pushing ...

Two major pieces of Michigan water policy were amended, to add stricter hiring requirements for water utility operators and ...

Lakes Mead and Powell, the largest reservoirs on the Colorado River, do not just store water. Their dams, Hoover and Glen Canyon, also generate electricity. This hydropower drives irrigation pumps and ...

Hydropower output at Hoover Dam is down by about half since 2000. Lakes Mead and Powell are approaching critical thresholds below which hydropower generation would be severely curtailed or cease.

View of Tehran, Iran. Photo courtesy of Flickr/Creative Commons license CC By 2.0 and Maxim Sinelshchikov Since Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. took office in 2022, the country has spent ...

The Great Lakes hold nearly 20 percent of the world’s surface freshwater, making them a resource of national and international importance. They power regional economies, support shipping routes vital ...