Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Tag: water

Forever chemicals contaminate water in 20% of private wells, 60% of...

Environmental and public health advocates have long criticized policy makers for failing to regulate these chemicals. 

Does Flint, Michigan, have clean water yet? The answer is complicated.

Even if the city has clean water, many people still struggle to accept that they’re being told the truth this time. 

Millions of Americans struggle to pay their water bills—here’s how a...

Access to a safe and affordable water supply and sewer services is codified in the U.N.‘s Human Right to Water and Sanitation.

The politics of water

It's in your sink...

New study identifies regions of greatest conservation potential for species, water...

A new study has mapped out the regions where conservation actions can maximize the protection of biodiversity, carbon stocks, and water, while a separate study has identified regions of the world where land animals are most at threat.

What happens to wildlife swimming in a sea of our drug...

Our rivers and streams have become a soup of hundreds of drugs—mostly pharmaceuticals—that come from the treated water released from wastewater facilities.

Here’s how the climate crisis is impacting the water cycle

The current extreme fluctuation in precipitation across the globe is due in large part to climate change.

EPA warns of Mountain Valley Pipeline impact on streams, says project...

The natural gas pipeline already has hundreds of water quality violations. Opponents are hopeful the EPA’s warning brings the project’s cancelation closer.

Biden has a chance to oversee biggest river restoration project in...

Removing four dams would promote salmon recovery, clean energy, agriculture and Indigenous rights.

Israel’s assault on Gaza left 400,000 without regular access to clean...

"Attacks on water and sanitation infrastructure are attacks on children."

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Donald Trump’s greatest ‘triumph’

I’m thinking, of course, about climate change.

Denying coverage with AI: CMS’s new Medicare model

Funneling money to for-profit companies by rewarding them for denying health care coverage through using unproven, manipulable AI models is not the answer.

Nuclear reactors stoke the climate they claim to cool

Heatwaves force European reactors offline while solar keeps the lights on.

What else but seething, punitive MAGA grievance explains its undying loyalty – absent real-world...

Whatever MAGA lives lack, brutalizing the even less powerful won’t resolve their miseries.

‘Unforgivable’: FEMA failure during Texas floods tied to Noem’s contract purge and Trump-era sabotage

More than 80% of survivor calls went unanswered after DHS Secretary Kristi Noem abruptly cut FEMA’s contractor workforce—days after deadly flooding devastated Texas.