Local activists warn that while residents must ration, unimpeded industrial expansion is imperiling the region’s future.

The administration's push to open federal tracts to critical mineral projects is fueling clashes over water, wildlife and ...

The Southwest’s first Regenerative Organic Certified farm provides a source of ideas for weathering climate change.

From orbit, Emi Koussi’s dramatic caldera and lava-scarred slopes hint at its fiery past, while dried lakebeds and erosion ...

Residents of modern megacities are accustomed to the uninterrupted water supply to their apartments. In such comfortable conditions, sometimes a false feeling is created that this important source of ...

A pool of Colorado River water could soon be lost for good, leaving Arizona cities and tribes with rights but none of its ...

The Imperial Irrigation District and its partners, the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) and California Project ...

For centuries, hundreds of millions of people have relied on desert wetlands that are now disappearing. Can blending ancient ...

Converting forest land to urban development or agricultural use can present risks to water quality when done near streams or river sources. This study examined data from 15 water treatment plants in ...

Nuclear desalination is offering countries in the Arab region and beyond a clean alternative to energy-hungry traditional desalination.

2.2.4 Calculation of soil water content and the proportion of potential water sources used by plants The soil water content ... afforestation area at the northeastern margin of the Tengger Desert. 1.

The woman, who attorneys identified only by her first name, Erika, had been wandering in the Arizona desert alone for two days while eight months pregnant before being detained by US Customs and ...