The Paris Agreement set a goal to keep global average temperatures from exceeding 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels even while that amount of warming was never considered safe. As most are aware, ...

The U.S. Constitution does not guarantee the right to clean drinking water. That is what the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said in an opinion involving residents of Jackson, Mississippi.

Earth’s oceans, lakes, rivers, and streams contain dissolved oxygen, which comes from the atmosphere and plants. All aquatic animals need dissolved oxygen to breathe. Now, scientists warn these waters ...

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 ...

Last week, the Trump administration approved part of a controversial project to pump groundwater from the Mojave Desert and send it to cities in California. Cadiz, the company promoting the project, ...

Scientists are very concerned about the Atlantic Ocean circulation system that affects weather in huge parts of the world. The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or “AMOC,” appears more ...

For the first time ever, the amount of global electricity generated by renewable energy surpassed that from coal during the first six months of 2025. According to the think tank Ember, solar and wind ...

Michigan alone has reported more than 5,000 cases. In a typical year, it gets up to 50. People can be infected after eating food contaminated with Cyclospora, a parasite, but not from person-to-person ...

The West saw heavy levels of precipitation this past winter in many areas, and that’s good news for water levels in Lake Mead on the Colorado River, the country’s largest reservoir. According to the ...

The Trump administration announced last week that it would take additional water from Northern California and send it south to farms and communities in the San Joaquin Valley, drawing strong criticism ...

The U.S. is facing a slow-rolling crisis over access to clean, safe drinking water but lacks a coordinated response to address the root causes of the problems, many of which are aging infrastructure.

The Trump administration has reversed its decision to dismantle a crucial ocean monitoring network. The monitors became operational in 2016 and are part of the Ocean Observatories Initiative, which ...