The latest salvo is California’s long-running water wars, SB307, has the potential to emerge as one of the most important …
Unquenchable Thirst: Groundwater Bill Could Shift State’s Water Management Approach MORE
Though by definition no analogy is perfect, a good one can create a flash of insight or provoke thought. A …
Humans have never lived on a planet this hot, and we’re totally unprepared for what’s to come. The real question …
Concern over a record number of fires ravaging the Amazon rainforest are influencing the political discourse as world leaders convene …
The evolution of the plastic bottle from amazing to scourge of land and sea has played out inside of a …
How the plastic bottle went from miracle container to hated garbage MORE
Some Massachusetts cities shut off water to enforce timely bill payment. Others place liens on the property that result in …
Fast-thinking innovation is needed to prevent ‘wetter wets, drier dries, hotter hots’ from threatening the state’s crops, species and economy.
This U.S. Department of Agriculture station outside Greeley and other sites across the Southwest are experimenting with drones, specialized cameras …
Farmers use tech to squeeze every drop from Colorado River MORE
Wildfire and drought dominate the climate change debates in the state. Yet this less-talked-about reality has California cornered. The coastline …
Grim Choices as California Disappears Under Sea Level Rise MORE
It takes more than 1,500 gallons of water to make a chocolate bar. Consider limiting your consumption of these foods …
An environmental group wants to unite Israelis, Palestinians, and Jordanians behind the idea that water can bring peace in the …
Here with Dr. Peter Gleick, co-founder and president emeritus of the Pacific Institute. Peter serves on the Circle of Blue …
As an expert on water and climate issues, Dr. Gleick joined the podcast to talk about the crisis we face, …
In the latest episode of Speaking of Water, host Eileen Wray-McCann speaks with Dr. Peter Gleick, President Emeritus of the …
Speaking Of Water With Peter Gleick: California Drinking Water Bill MORE
But the reality is that even in this country, there are many, many people without access to what most of …
The Daily Digest: Peter Gleick on the CA’s drinking water bill MORE
What does the future hold for the world’s largest renewable energy source, hydropower? Hydropower is an incredibly old source of …
A new report from the Pacific Institute finds that in 2015, 208,000 Californians lacked toilets, while 211,000 lacked hot and …
Study: More than 200,000 Californians lacked toilets or hot and cold running water in 2015 MORE
The Mississippi River is already bursting as a result of months of flooding in the midwest and south — and Tropical Storm Barry is …
PepsiCo said Thursday that it would test-market canned Aquafina water early next year as a more environmentally friendly alternative to plastic bottles. About the …
Each day, people living on the streets and camping along waterways across California face the same struggle – finding clean …
Can Providing Bathrooms to Homeless Protect California’s Water Quality? MORE
Ever & Ever believes people care enough about the planet to stop drinking water from disposable plastic bottles. But not enough …
When Meena Sankaran was a child growing up in Mumbai, India, her family didn’t have consistent access to water in …
Thirsty for solutions, water managers are putting AI-powered tools to work MORE
Each day 100 million gallons of seawater are pushed through semi-permeable membranes to create 50 million gallons of water that …
As Water Scarcity Increases, Desalination Plants Are on the Rise MORE
When the Philadelphia Cream Cheese factory here started making string cheese, too, in the summer of 2017, it brought scores …
Lowville Had Lots of Water. Then String Cheese Came to Town. MORE
Jainey Bavishi, the woman tasked with overseeing a new $10 billion plan to save Lower Manhattan from sea level rise, …
Can Lower Manhattan survive climate change? New York’s sea level rise plan faces pushback MORE
At the height of the 2015 drought that parched South Africa’s eastern KwaZulu-Natal province, Julie Mkhize had to pull carcasses …
‘We live in fear’: Facing dry times, rural South Africans rethink water MORE
When the first white settlers arrived in California’s remote eastern Owens Valley, the name given to its indigenous tribes was …
In Los Angeles ‘water colony’, tribes fear a parched future MORE
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…
