Sarah Kaplan

MSN

A new Colorado River plan requires water cuts for three states. Deeper cuts are still possible.

By: Sarah Kaplan

Arizona, California and Nevada will be required to curb their use of the water from the Colorado River by about 20 percent over the next two

The Detroit News

A new Colorado River plan requires water cuts for three states. Deeper cuts are still possible

By: Sarah Kaplan

The cuts proposed for the next two years resemble what the three states offered in a proposal this spring.

MSN

Trump administration will end support for key Arctic climate report

By: Sarah Kaplan

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is cutting direct support for the annual Arctic Report Card, a flagship assessment of the changing

The Washington Post

Record heat is drying up Europe’s major rivers, as these striking images show

By: Sarah Kaplan, Ben Noll

The continent’s major rivers – the Danube and Rhine, among them – are withering amid the resulting drought.

The Washington Post

Nevada sues over federally mandated reduction in Colorado River water use

By: Sarah Kaplan

In the first legal challenge to a long-awaited federal plan to stabilize the dwindling Colorado River, Nevada alleges that federal officials violated the law and failed to consider the economic effects of cuts that it says could eliminate two-thirds of Las Vegas's water supply.

Anchorage Daily News

Nevada sues over federal mandate to reduce Colorado River water use

By: Sarah Kaplan

Nevada sued the Trump administration Monday over a plan requiring it and two other states to cut Colorado River water use, the first legal challenge

The Washington Post

A collapsing glacier probably triggered the deadly floods in Nepal

By: Sarah Kaplan

Before and after satellite images show a glacier shrinking and a river swelling.

New Zealand Herald

What probably triggered the Nepal flood, and why it could happen more often

By: Sarah Kaplan

Before-and-after satellite images show a glacier shrinking and a river swelling.

The Washington Post

The world is certain to overshoot a critical climate threshold, U.N. warns

By: Sarah Kaplan

In a first-of-its-kind report, leading scientists describe a narrowing path for coming back from catastrophic warming.

MSN

The world is certain to overshoot a critical climate threshold, UN warns

By: Sarah Kaplan

The world will zoom well past its target for global temperature rise in the next few years, a United Nations report warned Wednesday, exposing people and ecosystems to profound climate impacts that nations had pledged to avoid.