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Researchers also concluded that rapid population growth was more responsible for the severe water shortages than rainfall patterns were.

An arid continent has suffered cycles of drought and dust storms for centuries. What is different now?

As climate scientists have begun reaching consensus that Earth’s outlook is getting worse at greater speed, the need for government action is thrown into sharper relief.

The Environmental Protection Agency plan, long anticipated and highly controversial, would regulate emissions from thousands of power plants.

The new environmental rules are especially concerned with areas around New York City’s reservoirs and water pipelines.

Many plans to meet the nation’s demand for power with renewable energy could consume billions of gallons of water every year.

A tiny island just completed a 10-year experiment to see whether it could become energy self-sufficient, and its residents say they have met the goal.

The draft of a bill that Senate Democrats will introduce Wednesday increases an interim target for cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

Researchers plan to look at what effect tiny substances found in products like sunscreen and industrial adhesives have on the environment.

Exporting waste illegally to poor countries is now a vast business, as companies try to reduce the costs of environmental laws.

Philips has the first entry in an Energy Department contest to build a more efficient 60-watt light bulb.

The European carbon trading system has been the most ''costly climate policy program in the world,'' according to the head of BusinessEurope, a powerful confederation of industry and employer groups.

A federal appeals board has ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider an air permit issued for a planned coal-fired power plant on the Navajo Nation.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has taken to monitoring his children’s water usage in the shower.

The Environmental Protection Agency says the data would cover most of the greenhouse gases in the United States linked to global warming.

A closer look at the case of Alan Carlin, a global warming contrarian at the E.P.A., paints a more complicated case than has been widely publicized.

The president of the tiny Pacific island nation will announce a prohibition in waters covering a Texas-size area, a conservation official said.

A proposed nuclear waste repository project at Yucca Mountain in Nevada is no closer to a resolution.

In a worse-case projection, a Vietnamese government report says that more than one-third of the Mekong Delta could be submerged if sea levels were to rise by three feet.

Progress on a global climate treaty may be difficult at a time when temperatures have been stable for a decade.