Dear Los Angeles: You’re Drinking Indigenous Water Text and photographs by Kelly Ramsey October 9, 2023 How LA can localize its water supply and finally do right by the Owens Valley Paiute tribes In this story: indigenous communities, water
Coal Dust Is Blowin’ in the Wind By Austyn Gaffney September 26, 2023 That black stuff spilling off railcars is a threat to public health and waterways across the United States In this story: coal, coal ash, health, water, toxics
How to Think Like a Watershed By Carson Vaughan September 25, 2023 The Platte Basin Timelapse turns science into photographic poetry In this story: photography, water, saving wild places, wildlife
When Extreme Atmospheric Rivers, Storms, and Floods Become the Norm By Serena Renner August 20, 2023 In an era of increasing weather whiplash between floods and droughts, can we learn to embrace the rains? In this story: climate change, water, science, disaster relief, rivers
Supreme Court Rules Against Navajo Nation in Colorado River Case By Morgan Sjogren June 23, 2023 155 years after signing a treaty with the US government, tribe still unable to quantify water rights In this story: indigenous communities, water, Supreme Court
In Corpus Christi, Texas, Environmentalists Are Fighting a Slate of Proposed Desalination Plants By Jeremy Miller June 13, 2023 The city says it needs extra water. But it's for fossil fuel and plastic corporations—not people In this story: water, drought, climate change
In California’s Monterey Bay Area, a Proposed Desalination Plant Divides Wealthy Communities and Poorer Ones By Jeremy Miller June 13, 2023 Residents of the town of Marina say it’s all a utility scam In this story: water, climate change
In British Columbia, Streams Have Gone Missing By Tatum McConnell June 6, 2023 Water is running out in a region known for rain In this story: climate change, forests, water, drought
Pikes Peak’s Innovative Adaptation to the West’s Water Crisis By Juliet Grable June 4, 2023 Yes, this is a feel-good story about mountaintop bathrooms In this story: hiking, water
Drops of Hope Along the Colorado River By Morgan Sjogren May 30, 2023 After 174 years, the Navajo Nation is still trying to regain access In this story: indigenous communities, rivers, water