In mid-December 2020, a month before he left office, President Donald Trump quietly signed the Save Our Seas Act to put the ...

A new film spotlights the sea lamprey, also known as "Dracula of the Lakes," a species which pushed Great Lakes fisheries to ...

“We face a vicious cycle,” Tharman Shanmugaratnam, president of Singapore, told us during the GAEA Awards held in the Forum’s ...

Federal agencies remove web sites for environmental justice, USAID water work. House passes a ban on presidential fracking bans. House committees will hold hearings on Clean Water Act permitting, Rio ...

In parts of the United States, there’s no relief from climate change. A fortnight after calamitous wildfire swept across the Los Angeles region, forecasters are warning of four days of terrible ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...