by Ren Larson, The Assembly This story was originally published by ProPublica in partnership with The Assembly. Dave Masters could no longer ignore the storm as trees cracked and the swollen river roared. It was dark outside, but through the window he could see his father’s house, usually 100 feet
By Emily Cureton Cook, Oregon Public Broadcasting This story was originally published by ProPublica, produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Oregon Public Broadcasting. Every year, about 90% of Central Oregon’s Deschutes River disappears into networks of canals and pipes traversing high desert. Between April and October, what’s
By Umesh Haritashya, Professor of Earth, Environment and Sustainability, and Director of Sustainability Programs, University of Dayton The catastrophic flood that killed hundreds of people in Nepal on Aug. 26, 2026, and left many more missing likely began with falling ice and rock crashing into the river below, but that
This story was originally published by ProPublica, co-published with The Texas Tribune. By Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune Joan Connor and David Stearns survived the 2025 floods in Kerr County, Texas, by clinging to the pergola outside their house. Their home flooded again this year. Texas lawmakers repeatedly failed to
By Kim S. Bernard, Professor of Biological Oceanography, Oregon State University The companies fishing for Antarctic krill have harvested so much so quickly that the season had to close in August 2026, three months before it was scheduled to end. That’s the second consecutive year of an early closing. The
By Melissa Bailey, KFF Health News WHITE MESA, Utah — On a hot April day, Malcolm Lehi maneuvered his Jeep Wrangler over a rough dirt road past junipers and sagebrush in search of Entrance Spring on land long connected to his tribe, the Ute Mountain Ute. The cool, mossy spring
By Ivis García, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University Imagine turning on your kitchen faucet and nothing comes out. Not for an hour, but for two full days. Then the water returns, only to stop again two days later. That is what more than 180,000
By Sarah Porter, Director of the Kyl Center for Water Policy, ASU Morrison Institute for Public Policy, Arizona State University Sarah Porter, Arizona State University In August 2026 the nation’s two largest reservoirs, Lake Mead and Lake Powell, both on the Colorado River, hit their lowest levels since they first
By Melissa Bailey, KFF Health News This story also ran on NPR. WHITE MESA, Utah — On a hot April day, Malcolm Lehi maneuvered his Jeep Wrangler over a rough dirt road past junipers and sagebrush in search of Entrance Spring on land long connected to his tribe, the Ute
by Nancy Forster-Holt, Clinical Associate Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of Rhode Island A record 332 million people visited U.S. national parks in 2024, followed by roughly 323 million in 2025. That’s a lot of love for national parks and lands. You might think that such big numbers of
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