Painful Experience Helps to Chart the Future of Groundwater in Ventura County

The fraught statewide…

Decarbonizing California’s Energy Diet

California’s ambitious energy goals may lead the state toward…

Beyond the Coal Boom: Powder River Basin Residents Look to a Diversified Future

By Treating Obstacles to Health, Community Health Workers Also Treat a Troubled System

Welcome to the world of community health workers. The job, part medical aide and part social worker, is a tradition…

In Other Words, Water

From multiple tongues came multiple terms for how water flows, and how it works in the West.

Lower Basin States Work to Keep Lake Mead Afloat

Lake Mead on the Colorado River has become an…

To Save Crops, Farmers Took Groundwater. Then the Land Sank

Like the topsoil, structures built 40 years ago to contain floodwaters are cracking, too.