While agricultural water districts favored Trump’s plan, the California officials also warned that increased federal pumping ...

Data centers are putting stress on water and energy supplies to power and cool banks of computers, many of which are fueling ...

Melissa, the extremely powerful hurricane that struck in the Caribbean last week, caused at least 60 deaths, most of which were in Haiti and Jamaica. The Category 5 storm intensified rapidly with ...

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 ...

In good news last week, Morocco and Sierra Leone ratified the High Seas Treaty that seeks to protect marine biodiversity in international waters—those beyond the jurisdiction of any country. The two ...

Last week, the Central Arizona Project (CAP) and more than 20 cities in Arizona announced that they were banding together to fight for their state’s share of the Colorado River. CAP delivers river ...

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to temporarily stop an expansion of the immigration detention center called “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Florida Everglades, while she considers whether ...

The report from the Energy Department was submitted as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a proposed rule last week to repeal the Endangerment Finding made in 2009 that said greenhouse ...

Sixteen years ago, the Environmental Protection Agency determined that greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide and methane, were dangerous to the public. The EPA’s "Endangerment Finding"—contained ...

Officials, farmers, and others who depend on the Colorado River received a grim prediction last week that Lake Powell, the second largest reservoir in the basin, will receive less than half of the ...