The biggest source of salty freshwater in D.C. and other major northern inland cities is an overapplication of road salt to ...

Lake Oroville hit capacity for the third year in a row this spring, marking a first-ever milestone for the lake.

As China tightens its grip on critical resources, Trump eyes Canada’s riches The post The US Badly Needs Rare Minerals and Fresh Water. Guess Who Has Them? first appeared on The Walrus.

At the same time, biotechnology is opening new paths as an alternative to antibiotics. Countries such as Norway, Chile, and ...

Concerningly low amounts of water are flowing from the Rocky Mountain snowpack this spring, a summer of drought looms across ...

The goal is to rapidly expand the areas where we store water -- not by building reservoirs, but by returning millions of ...

An Iraqi girl stands on former marshland, drained in the 1990s because of politically motivated water policies. Essam Al-Sudani / AFP / Getty Images The world’s earliest documented water war ...

Israel’s military operation in Gaza is cramming civilians into severely deprived areas, these five maps show how ...

Permafrost is often called the glue that holds the mountains together. When it thaws, the mountains crumble, and they start to break apart. At the same time, the glaciers are shrinking and, as they do ...

In the twilight depths of the Gulf of Mexico, about as deep down as a football field is long, U.S. Navy divers carefully snip ...

The number of miles of water trails throughout Central Iowa officially increased by 20 on Thursday with the designation of ...

As a chunk of Switzerland's Birch Glacier breaks off, partially destroying villages, scientists have revealed the glaciers ...