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Pollution from oilsands tailings dominated the agenda at the Dene Nation Water Summit this week as northern Indigenous leaders and community members discussed how to respond to recent news of multiple leaks hidden for months from neighbouring Indigenous communities.

A photographer’s drone’s-eye image of the famous phumdis of northeastern India shows a unique environment undergoing change.

A B.C. First Nation and provincial government have signed what's being called a historic agreement towards jointly managing land, water and resource development. 

This 29-year-old is disrupting the beauty industry by using oil from flies that consume food waste to make beauty products. 

The Manitoba water strategy, released earlier this month, is a far-reaching document covering conservation, climate resilience, water scarcity, biodiversity and infrastructure.

For centuries, survival in the North has depended on natural, sustainable energy provided by the land and water.

Bountiful for centuries, the crystal-clear waters issuing from the Alps could become increasingly contested as climate change and glacier melt affect the lives of tens of millions in the coming years.

Water use in Metro Vancouver is much higher, while reservoir levels are lower than normal, prompting the regional district to ask millions of residents and businesses to conserve.

Meticulous turf is environmentally terrible. Yet grass does have one charm: It “sweats,” helping cool the local area.

Running water is everything, which you don’t realize fully until you’re without.

More than a half million people in Puerto Rico remained without water service three days after Hurricane Fiona slammed into the U.S. territory, and many spent hours in lines on Wednesday, September 21, 2022, to fill jugs from water trucks while others scooped water from mountain runoff.

International Development Minister Harjit Sajjan is in Pakistan now witnessing the devastation.

On the eve of the German chancellor's visit to Canada, Wolastoq Grand Council, other Indigenous people and allies in Atlantic Canada will voice opposition to proposals for East Coast LNG export projects and related fracking.

The enormous energy demands of Bitcoin mining are prompting some U.S. municipalities to impose moratoriums or outright bans on cryptocurrency facilities. Bitcoin mining activity, critics warn, is leading to electricity price hikes and a revival of dirtier sources of power.

Water is essential for human life yet doesn't get a mention on the COP26 agenda, writes Sonaar Luthra.