Honoring Environmental Heroes in 2025

May 16, 2025

What compels ordinary people to take extraordinary actions in defense of clean air and water? Every year, the Goldman Environmental Prize...

Peter Gleick on Water Poverty, Conflict, and a Hope for the Future

June 30, 2023

No elemental force has done more to shape life on this planet than water, from originating the earliest forms of life, to sculpting our...

What We’re Watching in Climate Now

February 10, 2023

2022 was a historic year for both climate policy and disasters. The year saw historic investments in clean energy, electric vehicles and home...

Water and Civilization: Resilience and Collapse

September 10, 2021

Water is essential for life, and throughout human history we have sought to control and make use of it. As Giulio Boccaletti explores in his new...

Living with Climate Disruption

April 22, 2021

We’ve been living with the impacts of a changing climate for years, but those impacts don’t all hit the same way. 
A wildfire amplified by...

Flooding in America

August 14, 2020

“We had one of the snowiest winters on record in Lincoln and Omaha,” reports Martha Shulski of the Nebraska Climate Office. She’s describing...

Water Whiplash

May 25, 2017

Over the past few years, many parts of the country have experienced wetter wets and drier drys. California has seen five years of severe drought...

Killing the Colorado

February 16, 2017

Every year, 41 million Americans take more water out of the Colorado than nature puts into it. How can we continue to share an ever-shrinking...

C1 Revue: Surviving a Megadrought

November 1, 2016

After last winter’s rains, Californians breathed a collective sigh of relief. But short-term weather is not the same as long-term climate. And...

Is California Entering a Megadrought?

July 14, 2016

As the dry spell continues, studies show that California could be facing a megadrought lasting decades. How do we adjust to the “new normal”...