A drying climate in East Africa reduced the amount of water in Kenya's Lake Turkana over thousands of years, which unleashed earthquakes and volcanoes from underneath it. This hazard of climate change ...

Note to readers • Leia Larsen is a reporter at The Salt Lake Tribune. She spent a year as a New York Times Local Investigations fellow examining the intersection of politics and environmental issues.

One of Americas most unique ecological landmarks is disappearing. The Great Salt Lake, once the largest saline lake in the Western Hemisphere, sticks out on maps of the United States as a large spot ...

K'gari is the world's largest sand island and known for its world-famous lakes, but research from the University of Adelaide has discovered its largest lakes could be vulnerable to drying. The ...

The American West is experiencing its driest period in human history, a megadrought that threatens health, agriculture and entire ways of life. DRIED UP is examining the dire effects of the drought on ...

Hidden between volcanic cones in the Patagonian Steppe lies Laguna Blanca, an oasis-like lake in an otherwise arid region. Home to black-neck swans, red-eyed silvery grebes and dark-spotted endemic ...

In Owens Valley, where water diversions by Los Angeles have dried up Owens Lake, dust rising from the dry lake bed is a longstanding problem. Now, scientists have found that dust emissions from the ...

Turkey faces an ecological crisis as its wetlands disappear. This aerial photo shows a view of Tuz Golu, a vibrant pink salt lake in Turkey. It once had a thriving flamingo population, but when the ...

When she first heard about the Great Salt Lake drying up, Eddie Memmott, 18, thought it was bad, but “didn’t care too much.” But as she told KRCL’s RadioACTive program recently, she kept learning.

COMAL COUNTY, Texas – The water levels at Canyon Lake were at their lowest in 60 years in April thanks to a drought. Since the recent flooding, the water level has risen over a dozen feet, allowing ...

NEA SILATA, Greece — Six weeks before harvest, there's no water left in the ground for farmer Dimitris Papadakis' olive grove in northern Greece, so he has started a new morning routine. Joined by his ...