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Environment
Lake Powell, America’s second-largest reservoir, is 30 feet from a hydropower shutdown
By The Associated PressAugust 17, 2026
The Zollburg Pfalzgrafenstein, located in the middle of the Rhine, is surrounded by extremely low water levels.
Energy
Germany weighs options as low water levels trigger price surges
By Bloomberg and Kamil KowalczeAugust 11, 2026
Largest U.S. reservoir plummets to lowest level since it was filled some 90 years ago as water crisis deepens for western states
Environment
Largest U.S. reservoir plummets to lowest level since it was filled some 90 years ago as water crisis deepens for western states
By Ty O'Neil, Dorany Pineda and The Associated PressAugust 8, 2026
The remains of the German tugboat wreckage marked as UJ-106 in the Danube River.
Environment
Danube River’s shrinking water levels expose dozens of World War II ships
By The Associated Press and Marko DrobnjakovicAugust 4, 2026
How climate change could raise your water bill
Environment
How climate change could raise your water bill
By Emma Court and BloombergJuly 8, 2026
Nvidia says its new data center design will fix AI’s water problem
Environment
Nvidia says its new data center design will fix AI’s water problem
By Jacqueline MunisJune 22, 2026
New Mexico is in a historic drought. Oracle and OpenAI designed their newest data center with that in mind
Environment
New Mexico is in a historic drought. Oracle and OpenAI designed their newest data center with that in mind
By Catherina GioinoJune 15, 2026
Matt Damon and Gary White.
Environment
Corporate America has been draining the world’s water. Matt Damon’s new campaign calls on Gap, Starbucks, and Amazon to help give it back
By Catherina GioinoJune 9, 2026
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Environment
The river that supplies 40 million Americans is down to 23% — and about to make a $25 million bet on one fish
By Dorany Pineda, Brittany Peterson and The Associated PressMay 27, 2026
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North America
America’s largest oil export hub is so starved of water that it’s been illegal to have a green lawn for 2 years
By Michelle Hummel and The ConversationMay 25, 2026
Heavy smoke from the Highway 82 Fire in Georgia.
Environment
Record heat, zero rain, millions of acres lost: Experts warn wildfires are now America’s problem to survive
By Tristan BoveApril 30, 2026
A man walks on a patch of land that is dried and cracked
Environment
The world has entered a ‘global water bankruptcy,’ but markets are mispricing water as drought costs rise to $307 billion annually, analysts warn
By Sasha RogelbergApril 23, 2026
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Environment
Officials will flush 50,000 toilets to flood a Utah lake in order to generate electricity
By Mead Gruver, Dorany Pineda and The Associated PressApril 22, 2026
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Commentary
The next energy superpower will make its own fuel
By Gregory ConstantineMarch 17, 2026
Trump torpedoed Biden’s $1 billion plan to save American salmon, leaving species ‘on the brink of extinction’
Law
Trump torpedoed Biden’s $1 billion plan to save American salmon, leaving species ‘on the brink of extinction’
By Claire Rush and The Associated PressFebruary 6, 2026
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A dropout living in a trailer, he got $1 million from Peter Thiel at 19—now he's a billionaire who says the American Dream isn't deadplaceholder alt text
By Orianna Rosa RoyleAugust 18, 2026
Energy
U.S. strategic reserves are getting so low the drawdown threatens to damage the 60 underground salt caverns storing American oilplaceholder alt text
By Sasha RogelbergAugust 17, 2026
Success
Billionaire Gen Zer dropped out of high school to launch his startup at 17—now he’s the richest self-made 25-year-old in the U.K and all of Europeplaceholder alt text
By Emma BurleighAugust 17, 2026
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