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April 29, 2024
Liza Featherstone
We Don’t Charge People for Air. We Shouldn’t Charge for Water, Either.
A new bill from Elizabeth Warren and Ro Khanna seeks to ban the trade of water futures. Let's go one step further.
October 30, 2023
Magazine
Kyle Paoletta
The Water Wars Deciding the Future of the West
From conservation to importing water from the Pacific, Democrats say they have all the answers to historic drought. The one thing no one wants to talk about: stopping the sprawl.
August 9, 2023
Stephen Robert Miller
Why Are We Paying for Crop Failures in the Desert?
Taxpayers are on the hook for heat-related crop losses in parched states like Arizona. That needs to change.
March 29, 2023
Noah Gordon
Why Is Arizona Using Precious Water to Grow Alfalfa for Saudi Arabia?
How the so-called virtual water trade affects the Colorado River
February 16, 2023
Hector Diaz
Even Sports Stadiums Have to Adapt to the Southwest’s Water Crisis
Agriculture is the big draw on the Colorado River. But as the crisis deepens, everyone’s doing what they can.
January 13, 2023
Heather Souvaine Horn
Meghan and Harry, Welcome to America’s Climate Crisis
Torrential rains, flooding, and mudslides in California are a preview of an alarming future.
November 18, 2022
Heather Souvaine Horn
The Rhine Is the Perfect Symbol of Our Climate Folly
The German river, subjected to a massive nineteenth-century engineering project that facilitated coal transport, now needs engineers to intervene again due to global warming.
June 22, 2021
Nick Martin
Even Emergency Measures Won’t Save the West From Megadrought
Water cuts and dam removals are now necessary steps to keep the consequences of the climate crisis at bay. But the only long-term answer is to cut emissions.
June 15, 2021
Nick Martin
How Long Can the West Survive Republican Obstruction on Climate?
Some of the senators blocking climate policy represent states struggling with drought and wildfire.
May 3, 2021
Nick Martin
Severe Water Cuts Are Coming for Arizona. The Rest of the Southwest Is Next.
The restrictions are essential to keep the states from running dry, but vulnerable communities have already suffered from water scarcity for years.
February 8, 2021
Nick Martin
The Colorado River Crisis Is a National Crisis
Colorado River drought and water supply issues could soon affect 12 percent of Americans.
December 9, 2020
Nick Martin
Wall Street Vultures Are Ready to Get Rich From Water Scarcity
The basis of all human life is now officially on the market. Call it the No Future futures index.
October 16, 2020
Kirsi-Marja Hayrinen-Beschloss
“Over Half of the People Who Used to Grow Crops Here Can’t Do It Anymore”
Canyon de Chelly, part of Navajo Nation lands in Arizona, has been suffering from worsening droughts.
January 18, 2016
Rupert Neate
One Man’s Plan to Capitalize on California’s Drought
Scott Slater wants to pump billions of gallons to LA and other drought-hit cities—and make $2.4 billion in the process.
January 7, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Last year’s weather was weird and wet and hot.
July 31, 2015
Rebecca Leber
A Winter Olympics in Snowless Beijing Will Be an Environmental Disaster
April 23, 2015
Rebecca Leber
Conservatives Blame California's Drought on Environmentalists
And want the government to spend billions to solve it
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