California drought underscores the need to improve how the state – and the rest of us – divvy up a resource in demand.
Hakai magazine · Biodiversity Oceans Policy
A string of concessions to the oil and gas and fishing industries has severely weakened the protective value of Canada’s largest planned marine protected area.
Conservation and recycling can reduce the need for massive municipal water infrastructure.
Hakai magazine · Environmental Justice Food Oceans
The country is putting restrictions on its domestic fishing fleet, but its distant water fleet has been growing to compensate.
Ensia · Adaptation Nature-Based Solutions Slow Water Water
With climate change bringing more intense storms, urban areas are looking for better ways to manage runoff.
China’s fishers indiscriminately target predators as well as prey, putting different pressures on the ecosystem.
Ensia · Environmental Justice Policy Pollution Water
As contamination worsens, an oft-ignored groundwater pollutant is drawing new attention – and solutions.
Rethink · Climate Change Energy Water
Climate change, heavy-handed water management, and upstream dams are changing the Mekong Delta, pushing residents to adapt.
Hakai magazine · Climate Change Oceans
An innovative project is rehabilitating California’s kelp forests after decades of degradation at the hands of environmental decay and sea urchin predation.
Ensia · Environmental Justice Policy Pollution Water
In the wake of the Flint crisis, communities turn to innovative technology and financing to prevent the next crisis.
California has been the only western state without groundwater regulation – but now that looks set to change.
The Atlantic · Biodiversity Conservation
In the Kurdish mountains of Iraq, conservationists are facing landmines and cultural taboos to save the endangered cat.
bioGraphic · Biodiversity Conservation Oceans
As the world’s marine ecosystems face ever-increasing threats, is the the trend toward huge, remote reserves a promising new development or a worrisome distraction?
Scientific American · Science Water
Reservoirs may promote waste by creating a false sense of water security.
Scientific American · Adaptation Nature-Based Solutions Slow Water Water
Recovering “ghost creeks” from past landscapes can help protect the city’s
future amid climate chaos.
Scientific American · Biodiversity Biology Indigenous
A new IMAX film highlights their beauty and resilience.
Nature · Energy Renewable Energy
With prices for renewables dropping, many countries in Africa might leap past dirty forms of energy towards a cleaner future.
Nature · Energy Renewable Energy
Battery recycling can be hard, energy intensive and uneconomic. But soon, dead power cells could be more easily resurrected.