Features

• Categorized in Climate change and energy

  How we drained California dry

  A story of remaking the land and taking the water until there was nothing left.
• Categorized in Climate change and energy

  El Paso was “drought-proof.” Climate change is pushing its limits.

  This desert city has spent decades preparing for drought. Now climate change is forcing us to ask just how far adaptation can go.
• Categorized in Climate change and energy

  How rising groundwater caused by climate change could devastate coastal communities

  Higher sea levels will push the water table up with them, causing flooding, contamination, and all manner of unseen chaos.
• Categorized in Climate change and energy

  The Soviets turned the Volga River into a machine. Then the machine broke.

  Too many dams have made Russia's most important river dysfunctional. Here's how the mother river can be fixed.
• Categorized in Climate change and energy

  Zimbabwe’s climate migration is a sign of what’s to come

  Climate change will force tens of millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa to migrate by 2050. In Zimbabwe, it's already started.
• Categorized in Climate change and energy

  The architect making friends with flooding

  One Chinese landscape designer has pioneered a new approach—working with water instead of trying to bend it to our will.
• Categorized in Climate change and energy

  The Atlantic’s vital currents could collapse. Scientists are racing to understand the dangers.

  So far, the efforts to observe the currents directly show they're weirder and more unpredictable than expected.
• Categorized in Climate change and energy

  How to measure all the world’s fresh water

  Remote sensing has made it easier for scientists to monitor rivers, lakes, and reservoirs. Will it help us be smarter about how we manage them?
• Categorized in Fiction

  Elyse Flayme and the final flood

  A science fiction story on the unexpected perils of science fiction itself.