UN climate conference, which will be held in Belém, Brazil, in November, has acquired greater depth in its third decade. From ...

The long-term drying of the American Southwest poses a gathering and measurable threat to hydropower generation in the Colorado River basin. Should Lake Mead, the reservoir formed by Hoover Dam, ...

Most of the 32,000 people living in Juneau count, after all, among the 10 million people globally who are vulnerable to glacial outburst floods. But unlike those of Scandinavia, the Swiss Alps, and ...

ICIMOD researchers expect a monsoon season of “intensifying risks” for India, Pakistan, Nepal, and the Tibetan plateau. That means a higher likelihood of extreme heat, heavy rain, landslides, floods, ...

The nonprofit Conservation Fund acquired nearly 8,000 acres of land near Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp, protecting the ecosystem against a proposed titanium mine. A decade after the U.S. EPA updated its ...

The second tropical cyclone to hit southern China this month continues to drop heavy rain while also damaging cropland, public infrastructure, and homes. The fate of the Salween River, a target for ...

Communities in North Sumatra, Indonesia, are celebrating a ‘fragile win’ following the revocation of a controversial mine’s permit to build a tailings dam. India’s push to increase renewable energy ...

White House recession package would reduce already approved USAID funding for water, sanitation, and hygiene. Commerce Department agency opens applications for $1.4 billion in post-disaster economic ...

A mass fish die-off in Iraq’s marshlands is the latest hit to a region troubled by drought and water scarcity. Ongoing drought is expected to drop China’s national wheat harvest to its lowest output ...

Brett writes about agriculture, energy, infrastructure, and the politics and economics of water in the United States. He also writes the Federal Water Tap, Circle of Blue’s weekly digest of U.S.