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Theresa Fulgham wasn’t going to wait any longer. After days without water in Virginia’s capital that prompted some residents ...

Florida's water story is continually evolving. Before 1980, the state relied mostly on surface water sources — lakes, rivers, ...

As President Joe Biden's White House tenure winds down, he continues to put progressive policies before people.

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Tens of thousands of people have fled their homes as a brush fire in the Pacific Palisades has grown to nearly 20,000 acres ...

A new study provides the first comprehensive global estimates of the amount of water stored in Earth's plants and the amount of time it takes for that water to flow through them. The information is a ...

As unprecedented wildfires raged through Los Angeles, some firefighters suddenly lost access to water. City officials called ...

Freshwater habitats cover less than 1% of the planet's surface but support 10% of its animal species, a zoologist and study ...

Inspired by the Namibian desert beetle, Cody Soodeen developed a device that transforms air into over a million liters of ...