Climate change could mean less water for Los Angeles, which currently gets the majority of its supply from Northern California and the Colorado River. But the city has plans to become more ...

Last week, at a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, many countries made commitments to cut back fossil fuel emissions to fight climate change. China announced it would curb emissions by up ...

Emperor penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri) are the largest of the 18 penguin species that exist today. They have adapted to survive in Antarctic temperatures that can drop to -50 Celsius (-58 F) and ...

As many communities across the country remove lead water lines following the Flint, Michigan, crisis, there’s concern they may be “leaping from the frying pan into the fire” if they replace those ...

Earth’s water cycle, as we have known it, is spinning out of balance as a result of climate change and human activities, threatening long-term water security. Last week, the World Meteorological ...

In just 24 hours, the area, which is generally very dry, received more rain than what typically falls in a year, from Storm Daniel in the Mediterranean, similar to a hurricane and called a “medicane.” ...

The first anniversary of the war in Ukraine has passed, and its effects on the people and the environment will last for generations to come. Thousands of people have been killed, millions displaced, ...

With all that as background, the new Planetary Health Check report came out last week, saying that the patient—planet Earth—is in critical condition. In its assessment, the Potsdam Institute for ...

One rarely hears about someone in the military defying a direct order, but that’s what’s happening in Tucson, Arizona, because of a recent Supreme Court decision. Last May, the Environmental ...

The U.S. is facing a slow-rolling crisis over access to clean, safe drinking water but lacks a coordinated response to address the root causes of the problems, many of which are aging infrastructure.

The Trump administration announced last week that it would take additional water from Northern California and send it south to farms and communities in the San Joaquin Valley, drawing strong criticism ...

A bipartisan group of former U.S. Department of Agriculture officials and leaders from major farming associations warned last week that without action, there will be a "widespread collapse of American ...