Local communities in Gilgit-Baltistan in northern Pakistan are turning to the Indigenous practice of glacier grafting as water shortages take hold.
Resilience
The country’s water crisis threatens drinking water and hydropower and worsens the risk of destructive fires.
It’s been one disaster after another. And it may pale in comparison to what’s coming.
By rejecting an international arbitration panel's ruling, New Delhi has cast fresh doubt on the future of the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty.
In a new memoir, author Leah Stokes takes readers behind the scenes of U.S. democracy — and shows how people can still have an outsize impact by working together.
Governor Gavin Newsom’s new carbon market rules threatened money for certain climate programs. He struck a deal to continue funding for transit and water projects.
The United Nations concedes that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst impacts of global warming.

The Amazon’s defenders declare a state of emergency
02 September
As governments push oil and mining expansion, thousands of Indigenous leaders and activists gathered in Ecuador to chart another path.
The outlook for storage construction keeps getting brighter, as everyone from the Trump White House to clean energy advocates to AI giants clamors for more.
Homeowners rebuilding in Lahaina have lost hundreds of thousands of dollars to unlicensed or unreliable contractors. Government officials have so far failed to hold anyone accountable.

How urban farming in America has grown
01 September
Farms within cities and towns have always been a key source of food security in the United States. How will they evolve?
A new study highlights the life-saving role of air conditioning. However, scientists warn it also contributes to climate change.
As rising temperatures reshape France's vineyards, winemakers are turning to Normandy and Brittany, regions once known for cider, not grapes.
For half a century, Philip Fearnside has documented how roads, dams, cattle ranching, and other development projects drive Amazon deforestation and impose steep climate and biodiversity costs.
New research finds the Bronze Age collapse of civilization emerged from water scarcity. Are droughts today pushing us toward a collapse of our own?
Rising sea temperatures mean reefs don’t have enough time to bounce back between intense heat waves, a new report warns.

When lakes decline, can they recover?
28 August
While some of the world's largest lakes are shrinking dramatically, others show that recovery is possible.
Trump canceled a $15M EPA grant for Tampa’s University Area, halting pollution, flood-control, and community projects.
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