The Rundown CBO analyzes policies to increase disaster insurance coverage and maintain affordability. EPA finds permit violation at agribusiness giant’s carbon capture and sequestration project in ...

The Rundown White House requests $98 billion to respond to disasters stretching back more than two years. Bureau of ...

Towering grain bins are surrounded by close to 50,000 acres of corn, soybeans, oats and other crops grown without the use of ...

Deep below the surface in Arizona – roughly a quarter mile underground – sit large volumes of water that are less salty than ...

Brine is generally defined as water with a salt concentration higher than 50 parts per thousand, though some brines can be several times saltier Average salinity of the world’s oceans is roughly 35 ...

Water, or lack thereof, is often at the frontlines of conflict. By documenting water conflict across history, Dr. Peter Gleick, chief scientist and president emeritus of the Pacific Institute, ...

Contamination of the food-supply chain in Michigan in the 1970s was one of the worst mass poisonings in U.S. history. The events still resonate today. Alpha Clark was there when they started to bury ...

As they span significant areas of Asia, Europe and the Americas, karst landscapes cover some 15 percent of the Earth’s land mass. Scientists estimate that these areas of porous bedrock are home to as ...

Kusile and Medupi were proposed in an era when water was a bit more abundant in South Africa and there were 16 million fewer people. Climate change has seized South Africa and is causing havoc in the ...

Out of sight and often neglected, Michigan’s more than one million septic systems are an overlooked health and environmental risk for the state’s groundwater, rivers, and lakes, and the people who use ...