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An ancient Indigenous lagoon system brings water back to a dry town in Ecuador

Alexis Serrano Carmona 15 May 2024
Segunda Huenchunao of the Vuelta del Río community near El Maitén. Image by Denali DeGraf.

Indigenous communities along Argentina’s Río Chubut mobilize to conserve waterway

Denali DeGraf 30 Apr 2024

What’s at stake for the environment in Panama’s upcoming election?

Maxwell Radwin 30 Apr 2024
Nasidi holds up a water lettuce plant, which is often found in the Lenggang River.

Indigenous community fights to save its lands on Indonesia’s historic tin island

Moh. Tamimi 25 Apr 2024
Muhammad Erlangga, a student, washes his clothes with rainwater.

Rainwater reserves a tenuous lifeline for Sumatran community amid punishing dry season

Suryadi 11 Apr 2024
Producing an AI chip requires 10-15 times more energy than making a standard chip.

Critics fear catastrophic energy crisis as AI is outsourced to Latin America

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 21 Mar 2024

Java rice farmers suffer crop failure as copper mine pollutes local irrigation

Asad Asnawi 11 Mar 2024
Rotten coffee in Jember as a result of the long drought in 2023.

Harsh dry season sours harvest prospects for Java coffee farmers

Moh. Tamimi 26 Feb 2024
A boat carrying potable water from Macapá city, Amapá’s capital, by the government is stranded because of the siltation of the Amazon River in front of Livramento community.

Locals at the mouth of the Amazon River get a salty taste of climate change

Rodrigo Pedroso, Rudja Santos 26 Feb 2024
Bagmati River flowing through Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu.

Controversy brews over proposed dam on Kathmandu’s Bagmati River

Abhaya Raj Joshi 22 Feb 2024
A man with a child.

Andes community-led conservation curbs more páramo loss than state-protected area: Study

Aimee Gabay 14 Feb 2024
Marmi, a rice farmer, is monitoring the development of rice as the planting season approaches in Buru's Waeapo village.

Maluku farmers sweat El Niño drought as Indonesia rice prices surge

Jaya Barends 25 Jan 2024
Jasmine is commonly used to flavor tea and as an offering in devotional ceremonies.

Java’s crumbling coastline and rising tide swamp jasmine flower trade

Moh. Tamimi 24 Jan 2024

In Mexico, Xalapa’s chronic water scarcity reflects a deepening national crisis

Amigzaday López Beltrán 23 Jan 2024
A farmer carries a net.

A Mekong island too tiny for industrial farming now points to Vietnam’s future

Sonal Gupta 11 Jan 2024

Extreme drought in western Pará pushes family farmers into agroforestry

Sibélia Zanon (text) and Julia Lima (video and photos) 4 Jan 2024

With half its surface water area lost, an Amazonian state runs dry

Amanda Magnani 26 Dec 2023
Thailand flood, 2011

Thailand tries nature-based water management to adapt to climate change

Carolyn Cowan 7 Dec 2023
A woman stands next to a well with water that tastes salty due to seawater interference.

Salty wells and lost land: Climate and erosion take their toll in Sulawesi

Agus Mawan 21 Nov 2023
wind farm

Colombian wind farm end-of-life raises circularity and Indigenous questions

Natalia Torres Garzón 9 Nov 2023
Digital screens in New York's Times Square.

The Cloud vs. drought: Water hog data centers threaten Latin America, critics say

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 2 Nov 2023

More action needed to protect freshwater ecosystems, report says

Maxwell Radwin 27 Oct 2023

A tale of two biomes as deforestation surges in Cerrado but wanes in Amazon

Sarah Brown 23 Aug 2023
A farmer in a paddy field.

Vietnamese rice farmers go high-tech to anticipate a low-water future

Sonal Gupta | Victoria Mann | JJ Mazzucotelli | Michelle Gomez | Hafsa Maqsood 24 Jul 2023

Projects in Brazil’s Caatinga biome combine conservation and climate adaptation

Kevin Damasio 23 Jun 2023

Chile government faces backlash after U-turn on copper mine

Boris van der Spek 20 Jun 2023

Award-winning community group in Sumatra cleans up lake

Jaka Hendra Baittri 6 Jun 2023
Flooded road.

Dhaka faces manifold problems as water bodies diminish

Mohammad Al-Masum Molla 10 May 2023
Aerial image of Tinipak River.

‘It gives life’: Philippine tribe fights to save a sacred river from a dam

Keith Anthony Fabro 9 May 2023

A Guatemalan town fights to bar gold mining and save its waters

Jorge Rodríguez 9 May 2023

Colombian farmers turn deforested land into sustainable Amazonian farms

Antonio José Paz Cardona 8 May 2023
James Njuguna, a shepherd who lives near the Manguo swamp.

Drying wetlands and drought threaten water supplies in Kenya’s Kiambu County

Calvin Rock Odhiambo 5 Apr 2023

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