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In The American Southwest, The Water Crisis Threatens Existential Harm To Millions

Seven US states rely on the water in the Colorado River. Those seven states are divided into upper basin states — Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming — and lower basin states —...

Study blames fossil fuel emissions for significant loss of American West's water

“People living in the western United States have been paying the price for climate-change-fueled droughts and fires with their health, livelihoods and wallets,” said Emily Williams...

"Fire Climate": Hot, Dry, Windy Days Are Becoming Common, Making Wildfires Harder to Control

The Pacific Northwest is facing its worst fire season in more than 30 years. Scientists say drought, extreme heat and climate change are making wildfire seasons longer, more freque...

Global warming is ruining their way of life. These Colorado ranchers demand accountability

Colorado ranchers struggling with severe drought and heat have filed a friend-of-the-court brief in a climate case that soon will be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Washington’s wildfires are a warning for the entire U.S.

Dry conditions and climate change are putting forests across the country at risk for disaster

The Super El Niño Won’t Fix the West’s Water Crisis

“People have talked about the Colorado River crisis for decades—we’re now in it,” says one expert. “Everyone you talk to is like, ‘Shit, man.’”

Wildfires rage across Washington as drought and heat fuel painful summer: ‘It’s not normal’

Hundreds of structures damaged as firefighters battle to contain 15 major wildfires amid extreme heat and droughtFirefighters in Washington state are battling wildfires that have f...

Wildfires are no longer just a Western US problem. Here's what every American should know.

  Wildfires are evolving in the United States, becoming increasingly intense, frequent, and destructive in the built environment. For those who live outside wildfire-prone states,...

Heatwave scorching western US ups risk of hazardous fire conditions

In Oregon and Washington, low humidity and powerful winds have put officials on alert for wildfire spreadA heatwave scorching the western US region has elevated the risk of hazardo...

Heatwave scorching western US ups risk of hazardous fire conditions

In Oregon and Washington, low humidity and powerful winds have put officials on alert for wildfire spreadA heatwave scorching the western US region has elevated the risk of hazardo...

The western US is running out of water. What happens next? – Stateside with Kai and Carter

Thanks to pollution, overpopulation and the climate crisis, Earth is facing a terrifying new crisis: an irreversible 'water bankruptcy'. Now, fights over water have ramped up acros...

Wildfire prevention has always been a challenge in the West. Hotter, drier weather is making it worse.

In an overheating era, the old ways of keeping fires from raging out of control may no longer work.

Official: Drought, heat worsen wildfires surging across West

WASHINGTON, D.C. — As wildfires have scorched hundreds of square miles in Eastern and Central Washington in recent weeks, U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz told federal lawmake...

Drought Pits Farms Against Towns and Industry in Scramble for Water in West

In Arizona, dead fish lie in the dry bed of a reservoir. To the north, a small Utah town could run out of water in months. And in Colorado, a rancher has sold a fifth of her herd a...

How a drought that began in 2000 became the West’s worst in 1,200 years

America’s hydropower challenge goes beyond the West

This analysis and news roundup come from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. The U.S. depends on hydroelectric power — and ever-worsening drought...

In the American West, wildfire comes for the suburbs

Despite decades of warnings, neighborhoods in Reno and Spokane have sprawled ever closer to a hotter, drier wilderness.

Smoke, fire, floods: US faces triple extreme summer weather threats

Wildfire smoke blanketed the eastern U.S. from the Great Lakes to Washington, D.C. on Friday, floodwaters tore through Texas’s Hill Country for a third day, and new fires erupted i...

The west facing water cut threats amid water shortages

The drought-stricken west is now facing a moment of reckoning that could affect the entire country. The post The west facing water cut threats amid water shortages appeared first o...

Urban firestorm devastates Spokane as dense smoke envelops the Northwest

Climate change, combined with development in high-risk areas, is making urban wildfires more likely. The post Urban firestorm devastates Spokane as dense smoke envelops the Northwe...

The Record Snow Drought of 2026 Was An Early Warning Of What’s To Come For The West

Heat, Fire, Smoke and Storms Are Wreaking Havoc on the Economy

Repeated heat waves, wildfires, droughts and storms are solidifying the understanding that new investments are unavoidable.

We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit

Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys Far beyond the fires raging across Europe and North America, the smoke, dangerous to breathe, hangs...

On Fire. Again.

There were orange skies in 2023, 2025 and now again in 2026. Over the last few years, one thing has become glaringly clear: The East Coast is totally unequipped for the next climat...