The Ohio River stretches 981 miles from Pittsburgh to Cairo, Illinois, and provides drinking water for millions of people. Lawmakers from communities along the Ohio River have introduced a bill in ...

Clare Carlson ’23 graduated with an economics major and minor in environmental studies and was a 2022-23 Environmental Ethics Fellow with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. The ...

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The diversion of water for a Southern California Edison hydroelectric plant reduces the flow of the Kern River for nearly 16 miles. A group of boaters protested by carrying a raft along this ...

The Washington side of the Columbia River Gorge, left, stretches below the Cape Horn lookout on Tuesday morning. Western Washington’s rainy weather doesn’t eliminate wildfire risk. (Amanda Cowan/The ...

California isn’t recycling nearly enough water, according to a new report by UCLA researchers, who say the state should treat and reuse more wastewater to help address the Colorado River’s chronic ...

A revised plan to limit the growth of a new pass along the Mississippi River south of New Orleans calls for filling its entrance with stone while still allowing some water to flow through to form ...

From Lake Michigan to the Chicago River to streams and creeks across the state, there are tiny bits of plastic in Illinois waterways, according to a new report from an environmental advocacy group.