Chris Scheuring News Today

It sounds like a climate solution everyone should be able to support: Lets make it easier and cheaper for farmers with dwindling water supplies to convert their lands from crop production to solar energy generation, if thats ...

A conversation with the Times reporter Delger Erdenesanaa, who helped lead an investigation on the poor oversight of our country’s aquifers.

Overpumping and depletion of groundwater is a threat to farmers and is even more important because of climate change.

The Times asked all 50 states how they police the use of valuable groundwater. Their answers reveal why the country is draining and damaging its aquifers so rapidly.

The phenomenon not only has an impact on weather conditions, but studies also show it can cause ripple effects throughout the global economy, impacting everything from food prices to tourism to the number of winter jackets sold in a given year.

Storms have bolstered mountain snowpacks from Colorado to the Sierra Nevada, turning the page on the deep drought that gripped the West for three years. The question now is how

The legal framework and infrastructure governing the Colorado River is buckling due to climate change.

After three years of drought, state regulators have begun restricting water draws from rivers and creeks throughout California, including San Francisco.

Groundwater and surface water serve as lifelines to communities, agriculture, and ecosystems here in California. That is why it’s important that our local farmers and ranchers have sufficient water supply as drought concerns continue to linger.

An impending third year of drought has left California’s federally managed reservoirs...