In a letter addressed to the British parliament, nearly 200 food experts urged leaders to declare looming food shortages a threat to national security. ● After a dry winter and hot summer, Switzerland ...

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The Rundown And lastly, the Army Corps completes the first-ever assessment of PFAS in wild rice in northern Michigan. “We need to make sure we’ve got accurate information about power usage, water ...

And lastly, EPA promotes targeted standards for water reuse at a G20 ministerial summit. “Fit-for-purpose may mean using water of treated quality appropriate for the application, taking into account ...

The herbicide atrazine has been found in concentrations exceeding safe levels in 25 percent of rivers in the continental United States. ● More than 100 people in India and Nepal have been killed in ...

Legionnaires’ disease, a deadly respiratory illness spread by inhaling contaminated water droplets, is rising again. Following a pandemic lull, the case rate in 2025 climbed to its second-highest ...

In the struggling Colorado River basin, where water is scarce, the White House has signaled its priorities for how to use the remaining gallons. Even as scientifically-determined thresholds have been ...

The Rundown And lastly, the push continues for a permanent federal water-bill assistance program. “We shouldn’t have to beg every single year to have funding to make sure people have running clean ...

This article first appeared on The New Lede and is republished here under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License. US officials said this week they are ...

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