How Mongolia′s nomads are adapting to climate change.
For centuries, nomadic families have driven their livestock across Mongolia's steppe, preserving a way of life that goes back generations. But changes in this...
As temperatures rise, poor Americans are thrust into the thick of it.
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Climate change will fall hardest on low-income Americans, who are more likely to walk to work and toil outdoors...
Editorial: Policing California’s most precious resource.
Photo: Rich Pedroncelli, Associated Press
In this photo taken July 15, 2015, water flows down a canal near Byron.
Water disputes are a fact...
An unconventional new captain for California’s water agency.
California Gov. Jerry Brown last week appointed Grant Davis as director of the state’s Department of Water Resources. Davis, 54, general manager of the...
The world’s most-populated city, Shanghai, just had its hottest day in recorded history.
Children cool off from hot weather in a fountain in Shanghai on Friday. (Aly Song/Reuters)On Friday, the 24-million-plus inhabitants of Shanghai witnessed the...
Lake Borgne barge gate riskiest gate in East Bank levee system, consultant says.
The huge, floating concrete barge gate that closes half of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway as part of the Lake Borgne Surge Barrier poses the greatest flooding...
Is global warming changing the Southwest monsoon?
Study shows more intense but less frequent storms
Monsoon precipitation is an important part of the water cycle in the dry western half of the...
This could be the next big strategy for suing over climate change.
A Delta plane lands as a U.S. Airways plane waits to take off at San Francisco airport. (Reuters/Lucy Nicholson)Two California coastal counties and...
San Diego's effort to turn sewage into drinking water could get huge financial boost...
The federal government is poised to invest as much as $492 million to get Pure Water, the city of San Diego’s effort to turn...
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