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DAMSWhat Should America Do with Its Aging Dams?
Aging dams pose growing safety and economic challenges. Two Stanford water experts discuss the safety, economic, and environmental tradeoffs driving debates over dam removal.
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FOOD SECURITYU.S. Needs New Drought Assessment Framework as Droughts Become More Severe and Unpredictable
Droughts in the United States are becoming more intense and unpredictable, and the nation needs to develop a new drought assessment framework to better understand and address them. A new framework should be developed which distinguishes between short-term operational needs, such as drought monitoring and emergency response, and long-term planning for water management, infrastructure, and climate adaptation.
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COASTAL CHALLENGESSea-Level Rise Has Increased Frequency of Extreme Coastal Flooding Worldwide: Study
Human-caused sea-level rise has significantly increased the frequency of extreme coastal flooding worldwide. New research found that coastal flooding events expected only once every 100 years are now, on average, about 12 times more likely to occur.
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CLIMATE-CHANGE CHALLENGESAcross Europe, Heat Adaptation Plans Are Being Put to a Brutal Test
As global warming relentlessly continues to push temperatures upward, cities across Europe rehearsing what it might be like to live in the future when temperatures are projected to hit 122 degrees Fahrenheit. Those strategies are now being put to one of their biggest tests.
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CLIMATE FINANCEClimate Finance in the Multipolar Era
Amid continuing conflict in the Middle East, geopolitical shifts, and policy changes in Washington, climate finance has entered a new era—one driven less by multilateral commitments and more by geopolitics, energy security and mounting climate impacts.
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DROUGHTAs Drought Worsens, Western States Brace for Wildfires, Water Shortages
From the Rockies to the Cascades to the Sierra Nevada, mountainsides across the West are sparsely covered by the snow that usually blankets the high country well into the summer. That snowpack is like a savings account that the West draws on when the hot, dry months arrive, but this yearWestern states are heading into the summer with a desperately low balance — threatening wildfires, drinking water, crops, electricity and more.
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DAMSClose Calls at Michigan’s Dams Are a Climate Warning to America
Record flooding pushed Michigan’s dams to the brink of disaster. The near miss reflects the national problem of infrastructure that is not suited to the challenges of a warming world.
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CLIMATE CHALLENGESHow the Trump administration’s climate math doesn’t add up
There’s an old argument that protecting the environment hurts the economy. It’s wrong for a lot of reasons.
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DOOMSDAYWhat to Expect When You’re Expecting the End of the World
Jem Bendell predicted that society would collapse because of climate change. Then he tried to get on with his life.
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CLIMATE-CHANGE CHALLENGESStudy Reveals Climatic Fingerprints of Wildfires and Volcanic Eruptions
In research that could help elucidate humans’ role in global warming, scientists showed how three major natural events impacted global atmospheric temperatures.
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WATER SECURITYMexico and U.S. Look for New Deal in Long-Running Battle Over 80-year Old Water Treaty
Mexico and the US’s growing dispute over water rights further complicates an already strained relationship that must tackle existing challenges related to drug trafficking, security, migration and trade wars. Water is just the latest issue to rise to the top of the tension table.
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DISASTERSIn 2025, the US Suffered a Billion-Dollar Disaster Every 10 Days
A new analysis finds that in 2025 major catastrophes took 276 lives and caused $115 billion in damages. It could have been much worse.
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DISASTERSYou’ve Heard of Climate Change. What Is the Climate Debt Doom Loop?
The low-cost way for municipalities to fund responses and preparedness for the floods, fires and other disasters.
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CLIMATE ADAPTATIONStudy Warns Past Heat Waves Would Be Far More Lethal Now
The weather patterns behind Europe’s past extreme heat waves could cause tens of thousands more deaths in today’s hotter climate –unless countries rapidly scale up heat-adaptation efforts.
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WATER SECURITYWill Texas Actually Run Out of Water?
You asked our AI chatbot about Texas’ water supply. We answered some of the questions that it couldn’t.
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The long view
DAMSClose Calls at Michigan’s Dams Are a Climate Warning to America
Record flooding pushed Michigan’s dams to the brink of disaster. The near miss reflects the national problem of infrastructure that is not suited to the challenges of a warming world.