To save a dying aquifer – or at least their piece of it – a group of roughly 60 farmers in northwest Kansas decided on a self-imposed diet. The move a dozen years ago to voluntarily restrict the water ...

Honestly, President Trump has a target-rich environment for his havoc-inducing retribution crusade. Outlawing plastic straws in federal facilities. Challenging China with economy-sinking tariffs. And ...

Keith Schneider is at the forefront of reporting on some of the world’s most critical water and climate issues. With a career spanning over four decades, Keith brings a wealth of journalistic ...

As temperatures rise on the Kenai Peninsula, freshwater quality is expected to change — affecting both salmon and humans, new research suggests.

Aerial image of small-scale gold mines in Sudan, taken in 2012. Photo from DigitalGlobe via Flickr/Creative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs ...

The brutal Australian drought has emerged as “The Biggest Dry.” This is no mere statement of hyperbole, scientists tell us. It’s what happens when a nation purposefully designed to use an enormous ...

SHERIDAN COUNTY, Kansas — Hydraulic pumps and mechanized irrigation equipment gave America’s Great Plains farmers access to seemingly limitless subterranean water wealth: the Ogallala Aquifer. Six ...

Readers of Circle of Blue know well that industrial agriculture is the largest source of water pollution in the United States. Fertilizer draining from farmland and manure pouring out of factory ...

BUCKEYE, Ariz. – It was supposed to be called Cipriani, a master planned community with more than 9,700 homes at the western fringe of this sprawling desert city in central Arizona. Plans have changed ...