Fresh water makes up less than 3% of Earth’s water, yet demand keeps rising. This archive tracks real progress in protecting rivers, aquifers, wetlands, and watersheds — from policy wins and technology advances to community-led restoration efforts that are actually working.
With 96 separate provisions for the river system spread across nine chapters of legislation, it is the largest environmental protection bill the rivers of China have ever seen, and will enter into force on March 1.
The research team, in partnership with DuPont Water Solutions, solved an important aspect of this mystery, opening the door to reduce costs of clean water production.
Voters in Toledo, Ohio voted overwhelmingly to approve the so-called Lake Erie Bill Of Rights, a declaration that the lake has the legal right to be protected from harm from human activity.
DyeCoo uses a machine that dyes fabrics with pressurized CO2, which allows dyes to quickly dissolve and penetrate the textile — all without the use of water or chemicals.
First in a new series of Sustainable Development Goal bonds issued by the World Bank will aim to fund projects that promote clean water and healthy oceans.
A new $25.5 million project from UN Environment and the Green Climate Fund (GCF) will protect Gambia’s natural landscape from the increasingly damaging effects of climate change.
Earth Day began on April 22, 1970, when an estimated 20 million Americans gathered at more than 12,000 events to demand their country pay attention to the planet. In New York alone, a quarter-million people filled a car-free Fifth Avenue. Within three years, it had helped shape a generation of landmark U.S. environmental law.
Irrigation emerged around 6,000 years ago in at least four corners of the world at once — Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley, and China — with farmers in each place learning to channel rivers onto dry fields. Along the Tigris and Euphrates, the earliest known canals redirected water into otherwise barren land. It’s one of history’s clearest cases of parallel invention.
