Agriculture consumes more water than any other use. As food production increases to feed 9 billion people by 2050, the links ...

B, Circle of Blue In mid-December 2020, a month before he left office, President Donald Trump quietly signed the Save Our ...

A plastic pipeline supplies water to energy developers in the Permian Basin, the place where supply and demand for water ...

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Beneath the exhausting Sonoran sun, an hour’s drive west of Phoenix, heavy machines are methodically scraping the desert bare ...

Attacking the virtue and validity of research science is nothing new in certain corners of American culture. A century ago, in the famous Scopes trial, a high school teacher in Tennessee was ...

And lastly, staff reductions continue at federal agencies, as do legal challenges to the administration’s orders. “I spoke with Lee Zeldin, and he thinks he’s going to be cutting 65 or so percent of ...

Biological collection specialists are divers who travel around the country relocating freshwater mussels and other vulnerable aquatic species before river restoration projects begin. In September of ...

Brine is generally defined as water with a salt concentration higher than 50 parts per thousand, though some brines can be several times saltier Average salinity of the world’s oceans is roughly 35 ...

Even though the country is growing, U.S. water withdrawals dropped to the lowest level since before 1970 with steep declines for municipal and electric power sectors, according to a U.S. Geological ...

As they span significant areas of Asia, Europe and the Americas, karst landscapes cover some 15 percent of the Earth’s land mass. Scientists estimate that these areas of porous bedrock are home to as ...

Water, or lack thereof, is often at the frontlines of conflict. By documenting water conflict across history, Dr. Peter Gleick, chief scientist and president emeritus of the Pacific Institute, ...