By Owen James Burke, Surfer.com March 12, 2026 In 2013, when 18-year-old Dutch aerospace engineering student Boyan Slat dreamt up a solution to ocean plastics—and presented it in a TEDx Talk—could he have envisioned that, within hardly a decade’s time, his imaginations would come to fruition at such a scale? Probably. And despite much early… >> Read More
By Michael Phillis and M.K. Wildman, Associated Press March 10, 2026 WASHINGTON (AP) — The January collapse of a pipe as wide as a car dumped so much sewage into the Potomac River that officials tracked a spike of gut-wrenching bacteria drifting slowly past Washington for weeks, prompting an emergency declaration and federal assistance. It was a… >> Read More
By Dan Charles, NPR March 9, 2026 JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: In California’s Central Valley, the state’s greatest farming region, some farmers are being ordered to pump less water from their wells. Those limits have been in the works for years, but they’re still coming as a shock for many. Dan Charles has this report from… >> Read More
By Dylan Baddour, Inside Climate News March 8, 2026 CORPUS CHRISTI — The imminent depletion of water supplies in Corpus Christi threatens to cut off the flow of jet fuel to Texas airports and other oil exports from one of the nation’s largest petroleum ports, triggering potential shockwaves through energy markets in Texas and beyond…. >> Read More
By Virginie Soffer, University of Montreal March 4, 2026 Under the supervision of Université de Montréal archaeology professor Christina Halperin, Ph.D. student Jean Tremblay spent six years, from 2018 to 2024, studying how the Mayan city of Ucanal managed its drinking water. Combining geochemistry and paleolimnology, his interdisciplinary study explored the archaeological and social issues… >> Read More