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We’re in a perilous moment for water. But the Church Sampler is one of the many devices scientists can use help us make better decisions.
Drought, a legacy of overpumping, and now military strikes are driving the country’s fragile water and food systems to the brink.
With a newly elected leader, the International Seabed Authority must decide the future of more than half of the world’s ocean floor.
The Mojave Desert species is thriving at a solar farm near Las Vegas, perhaps because the panels slow evaporation.
Eight months past a federal deadline, more than 90 percent of at-risk Chicagoans haven’t been told their drinking water could be unsafe.
Sea ice extent in the Arctic has decreased by about 40 percent since 1979. New technologies are being deployed to regrow it.
In the most polluted areas, a quarter of babies are born underweight. The watchdog group wants the EPA to intervene.
Faced with a looming fuel crunch, some worry the state will push aside its efforts to combat climate change to keep gasoline flowing.
Development banks sent $2.3 billion to industrial animal agriculture last year, according to a new analysis.