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Arizona Daily Star
National opinion: Colorado River basin states head toward legal clash over post-2026 water rules

Big Pivots
Behind-the-curtain politics of a Colorado River conference

Colorado Hometown Weekly
Why Erie decided to stay in Northern Water project after others walked away

Colorado Sun
Are less-thirsty crops a solution to Colorado’s growing water problems?

The Cool Down
Chile's megadrought evaporates wetlands as data center boom accelerates

Coyote Gulch
Lower basin states prepare for the loss of Colorado River water
It’s not all doom and gloom, and 4 other things we learned at CU Boulder, Getches-Wilkinson Center’s, #ColoradoRiver gathering — Scott Franz (KUNC.org) #COriver #aridification
Behind-the-curtain politics of a #ColoradoRiver conference — Allen Best (BigPivots.com) #COriver #aridification
For June–August 2026, the World Meteorological Organization forecasts indicate significant shifts in rainfall patterns—a classic atmospheric response to the developing Pacific #ElNiño

Denver Post
Once underwater, Colorado River canyon country reemerges as drought-stricken Lake Powell’s levels drop

Grist
Trump uses wartime powers to dole out $700 million to ‘clean, beautiful’ coal and the MOST expensive power source

Havasu News
Colorado River states suggest mediation as water supplies near crisis

Las Vegas Sun
Killing Lake Powell won’t save the Colorado River

MSN
Colorado declares phase 3 drought emergency amid record lows

NPR
It's one of the world's most isolated islands. Here come the bulldozers

NY Times
As Oil Prices Spike, Talk of ‘Demand Destruction’ Sets In  The decades-old term refers to the sustained loss of demand for a commodity, caused by high prices. 
U.S. Forest Service to Open Millions of Acres to Off-Road Vehicles, Memo Shows

Phys.org
In Brazil's Cerrado region, Indigenous fire practices reshape wildfire strategy
Atlantic 'cold blob' caused by weakening ocean current system that's likely nearing a tipping point, reanalysis finds

Summit Daily
Local environmental organizations to host Water in the West series

Truthout
Pennsylvania Communities Are Beating Back a Wave of Water System Privatization  It always cost more with less reliability

Utah News Dispatch
The Colorado River’s largest reservoirs are heading toward a ‘system crash,’ experts warn

Westword
Colorado just blinked on AI and we’re going to pay for it  BIG money and Polis are to blame

Yahoo
Project Blue data center used over 500,000 gallons of drought-stricken Tucson water in one month

The Guardian

Car industry pressing EU for further delay to Brexit EV tariffs

Russian drone hits building storing spent nuclear fuel near Chornobyl  they keep bombing it which demostrates murderous intent
A driver of poliical violence’: how the breakneck AI boom is fueling anti-tech extremism
The fight to save Australia’s ‘incredibly captivating’ endangered spiny crayfish  Global heating is destroying creeks the crayfish call home. They’re the canary in the coalmine for other species living in the delicate ecosystems
A quarry atop an ancient volcano is Sydney’s newest bushland park. It’s just the start of an ‘intergenerational project’
Dining across the divide: ‘I’m not a climate denier, but aiming for net zero by 2050 is unrealistic’
Tax-break trees: how woodland became a store of wealth for the rich
Fisher with a mission: first woman to chair grayling society wants to protect ‘lady of the stream’

BBC
Residents' health fears over plan to burn more waste
Ecologist calls for plastics ban in cemetery

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