President Trump wants to expand hard rock mining on federal lands. A March 20 executive order calls for increasing new mining for uranium, copper, potash, gold, and any other “critical minerals” on ...

Readers of Circle of Blue know well that industrial agriculture is the largest source of water pollution in the United States. Fertilizer draining from farmland and manure pouring out of factory ...

It was supposed to be called Cipriani, a master planned community with more than 9,700 homes at the western fringe of this sprawling desert city in central Arizona. Plans have changed. One regional ...

Say this much, President Trump’s vow to “go as far as we have to” to control Greenland is pernicious, consistent, and ironic. Though he’s obscured his reasons for bringing the world’s largest island ...

Introducing the Blue Planet Report, a new quarterly feature unveiling the biggest water stories and trends shaping the world today. Not yet two months in office, Donald Trump has already cast a shadow ...

A plastic pipeline supplies water to energy developers in the Permian Basin, the place where supply and demand for water draws a bit closer to conventional market norms. In Pecos County, a group of ...

At the Port Huron Water Filtration Plant, workers keep tabs on the water traveling through the plant on a bank of computer monitors.

Agriculture consumes more water than any other use. As food production increases to feed 9 billion people by 2050, the links between water and food only grow stronger.

In 2024 when Donald Trump as a presidential candidate proposed piping water from British Columbia, Canada to California, his statement was largely dismissed as campaign rhetoric. Once he was elected, ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) The Midnight fire burned through this section of Carson ...