drought

How a megadrought is leaving one Arizona neighborhood with no water

March 10, 2022 By Jake Bittle

Thanks to Colorado River cuts, hundreds of residents on the outskirts of Phoenix are “the canary in the coal mine.”

Will partisan politics squelch the strongest water advocate in Southern California?

June 4, 2021 By Sara Roos

Climate change remains a thing and Los Angeles remains governed, as always, with intense political maneuverings surrounding that most vital elixir of them all—water.

Fighting for breath by the dying Salton Sea

December 19, 2017 By David Bacon

The children of North Shore are the proverbial canaries in the coal mine, whose sudden illnesses warn of a greater disaster to come.

The Panoche Hills: the strange sere bones of an ancient landscape

October 13, 2015 By David Bacon

A reflection on the dry landscape and living history of the Panoche Hills: It is austere, it is dry, it is dramatically beautiful.

California landscape scorched as wildfires blaze on

September 15, 2015 By Blake Skylar

With 700,000 acres burned so far this year, there's no end in sight for the inferno; or firefighters and victims, the numbers represent an uphill battle.