A new 900-mile-long oil pipeline is weeks away from bringing two oil fields to life in Uganda, where concerns about the impacts on Africa’s largest lakes abound. ● Hundreds of massive sinkholes have ...

Gamblers now have a chance to put their money where the water isn’t. Kalshi, an online prediction market, is offering wagers on Lake Mead’s water level at the end of June. Prediction markets like ...

KEY POINTS Policies requiring efficient toilets, showerheads, and appliances have driven down indoor water use. Per person ...

The reason: Vegetation burns in the fire. Scorching, high temperatures make the soil hydrophobic, which causes erosion and more runoff into lakes. Plants are no longer there to filter the sediment ...

The “Flamingo Revolution,” a mass protest against a planned hotel resort in the Vjosë River Delta, a protected biosphere, has taken Tirana, Albania by storm. ● Half of the world’s children are ...

Explore how prescribed burns for wildfire prevention can protect ecosystems and reduce risks in the Upper Midwest’s pristine lakes.

Western wildfires start and spread because of a whole host of factors—wind, temperature, drought, forest health. But scientists are finding that the most important indicator of where the next big fire ...

- The process began a year ago to delete a 25-year-old safeguard for wild forests. - Allowing new roads could open tens of millions of acres of forest – most of it untouched by industrial society – to ...

And lastly, Democratic senators criticize the EPA’s reversal on coal ash regulations. “EPA has failed to identify new evidence or changed circumstances that justify abandoning or weakening these ...