Environment

A year after warning of an erratic water cycle, the UN’s weather agency says the world’s freshwater savings are shrinking.

A lake has nearly vanished, fish farms have lost hundreds of tonnes of fish, and the Danube ran so low it threatened a nuclear…

Forecasters confirmed El Niño had arrived. The question now is how strong it gets, and where it brings drought or floods.

Scientists warned that El Niño was building in the Pacific, and it could be one of the strongest ever. Here’s why that matters for…

After the lowest snowpack on record, the US government ordered water released from upstream to stop Lake Powell falling too low to work.

California’s April snow survey found no measurable snow. A week later, Washington declared a statewide drought.

Forty million people rely on the Colorado River. The states that share it still can’t agree how to share less of it.

Three storms in a row hit the Iberian peninsula, filling rivers and reservoirs to bursting and forcing thousands from their homes.

A new UN report says “water crisis” no longer describes reality. Many rivers, lakes and aquifers have been drained beyond realistic recovery.

When Typhoon Ragasa’s rain hit eastern Taiwan, a lake formed by landslides overflowed and flooded the town of Guangfu.