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Nuclear power, for example, is reliable but inflexible, while energy from oil is flexible but polluting and costly.

Progress roundup: Small dams across the U.S. are being removed for safety, water quality, and wildlife. And a desert in Chile yields water from fog.

Thorn forest once blanketed the Rio Grande Valley. Restoring even a little of it could help the region cope with the impacts of climate change

Last year, tribes in Oregon and California pulled off the largest dam removal in U.S. history. This is their story.

This past week, beavers were legally released into the English countryside for the first time since they were hunted into extinction there in the 17th century. Conservationists hailed it as a watershed moment for this keystone species, which helps combat flooding and drought by engineering the landscape with dams and channels. Alex Thomson of Independent Television News reports.

The governor vowed to clear the way for more groundwater recharge. Has it worked? "We're still tinkering around with small numbers," one expert says.

For the first time in more than 80 years, Chinook salmon are swimming in the North Yuba River in Northern California thanks to an innovative wildlife program.

President Trump's executive orders on California water will help irrigate Central Valley farms. They won't do anything to fight wildfires.

President Donald Trump wants to essentially cancel a recent agreement between federal and state water managers.

For the past three years, Russia has used missiles and drones to locate and destroy vital infrastructure in Ukraine—power plants, dams, electrical-transmission lines. Everyone understands that t

Unsurprisingly, there are a lot of problems that come with that.

When Hurricane Helene barreled through North Carolina, it left behind a flooded wasteland where the water filled with mud and microbes was not drinkable. Nothing says "modern emergency preparedness," like boiling your water for seven weeks straight.

CARACAS, Nov 13 (IPS) - The Latin American and Caribbean region is a student with good grades in renewable energy, but not in energy efficiency, and has a long way to go in contributing to global climate action and overcoming the vulnerability of its population and economies.

The golden mussel's appearance in the Delta is its first confirmed detection in North America — and could clog major water supply pumps.

New experimental evidence suggests destructive, 'jumping' silver carp are deterred by Chicago-area water pollution.

Dams across the country are aging and facing intensifying floods wrought by climate change. But the price tag to fix what's broken is estimated in the hundreds of billions of dollars.

The plight of the river, which empties into Lake Erie at Cleveland, helped inspire the Clean Water Act. Now it attracts kayakers and anglers and could soon be removed from an EPA watchlist.

Coastal cities often bear the brunt of hurricanes. But as Hurricane Helene showed, extreme rainfall can be life-threatening hundreds of miles away.

How does a region that is nearly 500 miles from the Gulf become devastated by flooding?

Two major dams in North Carolina were at risk or in the process of failing, forcing evacuations after Hurricane Helene inundated the region.