The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Tuesday that global carbon dioxide concentrations last month were the highest since it started …
Global Carbon Dioxide Measurements Spike To Record High MORE
In India’s ‘Silicon Valley’ tech hub of Bangalore, where gleaming office complexes and apartment blocks have sprouted faster than the …
Parched soil, dead cattle, young girls walking miles for a litre of muddy water and villagers digging up dried wells …
The amount of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere has officially surpassed levels seen in the entirety of human history, topping …
Carbon Dioxide Levels Reach Highest Point in Human History MORE
Carbon dioxide levels in Earth’s atmosphere hit a stunning milestone over the weekend.
A major Southern California water purveyor paved the way Tuesday for a massive restoration project at the Salton Sea in …
Irrigation District Approves Salton Sea Restoration Project MORE
A team of scientists traced back the planet’s history of drought in the past century, discovering clear signals of global …
Humans Can Be Blamed For Global Droughts As Far Back As 100 Years Ago MORE
In an unusual new study, scientists say they have detected the fingerprint of human-driven global warming on patterns of drought …
Scientists See Fingerprint of Warming Climate on Droughts Going Back to 1900 MORE
Water is one of the cheapest commodities on the planet, but it’s also among life’s most essential resources. It can …
A sobering recent study says that almost all of the state’s crops, together valued at more than $50 billion a …
California remains a holdout on a drought emergency plan for the Colorado River that is due next Tuesday by all …
On a blustery Thursday in late March, Stefan Ashkenazy, a hotelier and arts patron from Los Angeles, was bucketing through …
The world’s largest companies, despite increasing awareness of how water scarcity can hurt the bottom line, are not moving quickly …
Intelligence analysts have agreed since the late 80s that climate change poses serious security risks…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, wants to create a tax on water customers to fund a safe drinking water …
California Governor’s Plan to Create New Drinking Water Tax Faces Resistance MORE
Falling in line with Governor Newsom’s clean water agenda outlined in the State of the State, a desert assemblyman will …
State Leaders To Tour Beleaguered Desert Water Facilities MORE
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, wants to create a tax on water customers to fund a safe drinking water …
California Governor’s Plan to Create New Drinking Water Tax Faces Resistance MORE
In November, Los Angeles County passed Measure W, providing $3 billion per decade for regional green infrastructure projects to capture …
Martha Davis: Using Sustainable Landscapes To Address Climate Change & Drought MORE
Today’s World Water Day, which falls on March 22 each year and is often an occasion for plenty of “doom …
Tackling the Water Crisis Will Be Just As-Hard as It Sounds MORE
The Philippines is touted to be a water-rich country. “We are an agricultural country, and that says a lot regarding …
Another group of top state officials visited the Salton Sea this week to promise that this time, things will be …
Residents See Zero Progress at Salton Sea, but New Officials Say It’s Time to Turn the Page MORE
Nearly 780 million people worldwide do not have access to a source of clean water (water that flows through a …
12 Facts That Show Why Bottled Water Is One of the Biggest Scams of the Century MORE
Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York City recently unveiled a $10 billion plan to extend part of Manhattan’s coastline…
The board voted to exclude the Imperial Irrigation District from a Southwestern states water conservation pact…
There’s a new reason to disregard clean-water protections in the mountainous, coal-mining state of West Virginia, and plenty…
There’s a new reason to disregard clean-water protections in the mountainous, coal-mining state of West Virginia, and plenty…
The Imperial Irrigation District announced Wednesday it is declining to sign a Southwestern-states water…
Here in California when it rains, it pours. But how much good is all this water really doing us?
California is wasting trillions of gallons of rainwater each month during its wettest season in 40 years following a deadly …
California Is Missing the Chance to Collect Trillions of Gallons of Rainwater MORE
California’s rainy season could be the wettest in 40 years, but experts say the state is missing a major opportunity …
The Golden State’s had a harsh winter. Between October 1 and March 3, most California weather stations across the state …
Why California’s Droughts and Floods Will Only Get Worse MORE
February storms have left California flush with water, relieving concerns the state could quickly slip back into the drought conditions …
February Storms Wash Away Drought Conditions. Will San Diegans Continue to Conserve? MORE
A Southern California irrigation district with the highest-priority rights to water from a major Western river is using its power …
Push for Salton Sea Restoration Stalls Drought Plans in the West — We Get the Latest MORE
It has become a cliché of doom-mongering: future wars will be over water. The forecast is old enough to face …
Disputes Over Water Will be an Increasing Source of International Tension MORE
Slimming down a $17 billion plan to shunt water from Northern California to the arid south has the state considering …
California Touts Desalination, but Take It With a Grain of Salt MORE
A California irrigation district with the highest-priority rights to Colorado River water is using its power to demand federal funds …
Bid To Secure Cash For The Salton Sea Stalls Colorado River Drought Plan MORE
The amount of rain that has fallen on California this winter is prodigious — 18 trillion gallons, enough water to …
Press Democrat Editorial: California Needs to Save More of Its Rainwater MORE
California’s Salton Sea is a complicated place that’s not well known outside the Golden State, but its imperiled status has …
Salton Sea Money Demand Clogs Up Colorado River Drought Plans MORE
California’s wet winter has dumped at estimated 18 trillion gallons of rain in February alone. But much of it is …
California’s wet winter has dumped an estimated 18 trillion gallons of rain in February alone. But much of it is …
California Wastes Most of Its Rainwater, Which Simply Goes down the Drain MORE
It was a sultry-hot Sunday in August 2014 when ISIS came to the Iraqi town of Snune. Roaring around the …
The Imperial Irrigation District holds among the oldest and largest rights to water from the Colorado River and is using …
Imperial Irrigation District ties Colorado River plan to Salton Sea funds. Make it happen. MORE
Water continues to be among the biggest stories of our era, and there are waves of change ahead.
The salt and chemicals in the brine left over from desalination can threaten local marine ecosystems…
For decades, California has led the world in efforts to reduce the energy consumption of appliances and buildings…
Peter Gleick is the founder and emeritus director of the Pacific Institute in Berkeley, California, and perhaps the world’s leading …
About 700 million people worldwide lack reliable access to fresh water, a number which might grow due to population growth …
While the Internet fawned over Fiji Water Girl, one of the models hired to pass out bottled drinks and photobomb …
Fawning Over ‘Fiji Water Girl’ Ignores The Evils Of Bottled Water MORE
To subsidize drinking water bills for poor households, California regulators recommend new taxes on bottled water and incomes above $1 …
California Water Board Outlines $606M Bill Assistance Program MORE
