By Yvaine Ye, University of Colorado at Boulder Greenhouse gas and aerosol emissions from human activity have been driving the...
This is the second installment of Mongabay’s coverage of active management tools for forest fires. Read Part 1. Photographs of forests in the western U.S. from the mid-1800s show a starkly different reality compared to what we see today, says...
By Edward Ring, Director of Water and Energy Policy at the California Policy Center Those of us following water politics...
By Rachel Becker, CalMatters This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. After one of the...
by Jeniffer Solis, Nevada Current Federal officials announced Friday they would continue water allocation cuts on the Colorado River for the fifth consecutive year following a persistent drought that’s shrunken the river’s largest reservoir. The Bureau of Reclamation announced that...
Newsom’s fast-tracking of legislation will override due process on the controversial Delta Conveyance Project Press release from Restore the Delta...
By Tim Carmichael, President of California Council for Environmental and Economic Balance and Joe Cruz, Executive Director, California State Council...
Press release from Ocean Well and Las Virgenes Municipal Water District OceanWell, a water technology company, announced plans to advance Water Farm 1 (WF1)– the first subsea reverse osmosis desalination project in the U.S. — in partnership with Las Virgenes...
Latest projections stress the need for robust operational agreements for the Colorado River after 2026 The Bureau of Reclamation released the August...
By Dan Walters, Cal Matters This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Tanned, rested and...
By Faith Kearns, Arizona State University As wildfire crews battled the Dragon Bravo Fire on the Grand Canyon’s North Rim in July 2025, the air turned toxic. A chlorine gas leak had erupted from the park’s water treatment facility as...
By John Cannon, Mongabay On Sept. 8, 2020, a brush field in southern Oregon, in the northwestern U.S., caught fire....
University of Nevada, Reno researchers use the popular Lamoille Canyon recreation area to dig deeper into wildfires’ possible effects on...
by Bob Henson, Yale Climate Connections Climate change appears to have driven an ongoing 25-year shortfall in winter rains and mountain snows across the U.S. Southwest, worsening a regional water crisis that’s also related to hotter temperatures and growing demand....