Tag: water
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."
Rivers are key to restoring the world’s biodiversity
Biodiversity is plummeting, but restoring rivers could quickly reverse this disastrous trend.
What to do about the water
You don’t have to be a person in poverty to see water as a real problem.
Public health crisis looms as California identifies 600 communities at risk...
A new report puts into focus for the first time the scope of the state’s drinking-water problems and what it will take to fix them.
California officials shed light on Nestlé taking millions of gallons of...
“These are people who just want to make money, but they've already dried up the upper Strawberry Creek and they've done a lot of damage.”
Nearly 60 million Americans don’t drink their tap water, research suggests—here’s...
Fixing water lines is important, but so is giving people confidence to turn on the tap.
‘Historic and hopeful moment’: Senate confirms Haaland as interior secretary
One campaigner called her confirmation “a tremendous win for Indigenous communities, the waters, parks, and lands across our country, and the climate.”
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Apathy in the American Medical Association
It is well past time that they break their silence.
A mulish fool, a farce-spoiled pool and more swill from staggering misrule
No matter the mayhem, great or small,/ Dredge up “vandals did it” protocol.
Native American tribes came together to secure their rights to Colorado River water. Four...
If passed into law, the Northeastern Arizona Indian Water Rights Settlement Act would resolve the largest outstanding claim on the Colorado River while providing about $5 billion in federal funding to build infrastructure to transport the water across the reservations.
Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
UN inquiry says Israel deliberately targeted Palestinian children in Gaza
A new UN Commission report details more than 20,000 children killed, tens of thousands injured, attacks on hospitals and schools, and evidence that Palestinian children were treated not as collateral damage, but as targets.