Afghanistan is building a 285-kilometre waterway at an accelerated pace to irrigate its drought-ridden northern regions.

Drying seas and lakes threaten billions; urgent global action on emissions, water management, and nature-based solutions is ...

My thanks to the Republic of Kazakhstan for the invitation to speak at this important event on drying seas and lakes during the seventh session of the ...

Imagine a body of water so vast that fishermen once sailed for hours without seeing land, where waves crashed against busy ...

Mirtalipova’s parable-like account of the Aral Sea’s dwindling waters makes for a startling story of ecological change. A series of seven opening maps chronologically establishes the dramatic ...

This story appears in the June 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. “This is what the end of the world looks like,” says Yusup Kamalov, sweeping his hand toward the scrub-covered desert ...

A new study led by UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies reveals ...

A $19.2 million beach restoration project aimed at reversing severe erosion along Delray Beach’s shoreline is set to begin in ...

For the first time, scientists have cryopreserved and revived the larvae of a sea star species. The breakthrough, made with the giant pink star, gives hope the technique could be repeated to save the ...

Twenty million dollars will go toward the  Biscayne Bay water quality improvement projects, bringing the state’s total investment in the bay to $100 million since 2021. DeSantis announced the new ...