Last week, a new study from researchers at Stanford University found that a market-based approach could help sustain not only farmers, but also fish. According to the new research, 44 out of 49 fish ...

An "Environmental Nightmare" Where Perpetrators May Not Be Caught It’s being called an “environmental nightmare”—tiny plastic pellets the size of lentils have been washing up on beaches in France and ...

On one side of the cycle, more than half of the world’s reservoirs and catchment areas (where water is collected) were drier than normal, as in the Mississippi River basin in the United States.

The federal government announced that, for the next year, there will be no additional cutbacks of water allotments from the Colorado River for Arizona and Nevada, but they will have to maintain the ...

A prophetic poem written by a man from Derna, Libya, just days before catastrophe struck his country last week, has gone viral. His poem warned of a failed state —and rain as a “a sign of goodness, a ...

The Environmental Effects of the War on Ukraine Will Last for Generations The first anniversary of the war in Ukraine has passed, and its effects on the people and the environment will last for ...

Professionals who work to provide safe drinking water and who handle waste and stormwater are aging out, and, as Michigan Public reports, finding young people to replace them is a challenge. A report ...

Permafrost is a permanently frozen layer on or under Earth’s surface consisting of soil, gravel, and sand bound together by ice, found mainly in Arctic regions of Greenland, the U.S., China, Russia, ...

A Dire Warning About World’s Water Resources, as UN Conference Begins A first-of-its-kind report on the world’s water resources contains a dire warning—within about seven years, the demand for the ...

Western Urban Conservation Is Working As Residents Reduce Their Footprint The Colorado River Basin is in a crisis brought on by a long-term drought made much worse from climate-change-induced ...

Fossil Fuel Subsidies Increase Despite Wildfires, Heatwaves, and Floods The need to curb greenhouse gases is urgent, as weather disasters like wildfires, heatwaves, and flooding are now becoming ...

The National Weather Service said that during the snowmelt runoff season, Lake Powell, the second largest reservoir on the river, is forecast to get more than 170 percent of the annual average amount ...