Extreme Weather
Who Is Waterkeeper: Amanda Reichelt-Brushett, Richmond Riverkeeper
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
Richmond Riverkeeper is one of the newest Waterkeeper groups in the movement. Their official membership only went live in December of 2023. But the impetus...
Waterkeeper Alliance Calls on Insurance Industry to Support 1.5°C Climate Targets
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Climate And Safe Energy | News | Press Releases
Today, the Insure Our Future campaign released its seventh annual scorecard on insurance, fossil fuels, and the climate emergency. The report was co-published...
Who Is Waterkeeper: Angie Rosser, West Virginia Headwaters Waterkeeper
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
Angie Rosser is the West Virginia Headwaters Waterkeeper and also the Executive Director of the West Virginia Rivers Coalition. She grew up in Ohio and...
Tijuana Waterkeeper: Co-creating community science based solutions / / / Tijuana Waterkeeper: Construyendo Soluciones Colectivas Basadas en la Ciencia Comunitaria
- By: Tijuana Waterkeeper
- News
The environmental complexity of issues to which waterways are exposed to in Tijuana requires more and better collaboration between stakeholders to co-generate...
Who Is Waterkeeper: John Peach, Upper St Lawrence Riverkeeper
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
The St. Lawrence River is an international border, with Ontario, Canada on one side, and the U.S. state of New York on the other. It connects Lake Ontario,...
Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to Dire IPCC Report on Climate Crisis
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | News
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released earlier today brings a dire warning: climate change is accelerating and aggressive...
Two Inches Of Rain Was All It Took
- By: Kemp Burdette
- Pure Farms, Pure Waters
Two inches of rain was all it took to send three million gallons of hog feces and urine coursing from Sampson County’s B&L Farms to Starlins Swamp,...
Hog and Poultry Waste Threat in N.C. Has Gotten Worse Since Hurricane Florence
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Press Releases | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
North Carolina’s industrial meat operations pose a greater environmental threat today than they did when Hurricane Florence hit the state in 2018. And...
Last Chance for Lighthouse Point campaign announces relaunch six weeks after Hurricane Dorian
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
On July 15, 2019, five leading Bahamian environmental groups — the Bahamas Reef Environment Education Foundation, Save the Bays, ReEarth, EARTHCARE,...
Mitigate Oil Pollution
- By: ajcarapella
- News
By Save the Bays. Reposted with permission from Save the Bays As our islands become more populated, the demand for energy increases, however, this should...
Bringing Sampling Equipment — And Moral Support — to the Bahamas, After Dorian
- By: Ellen Simon
- News
Christian Breen, Waterkeeper Alliance field investigator, and Pete Nichols, Waterkeeper’s organizing director, spent five days in late September assisting...
Bayou City Waterkeeper Advocates for Flood Planning “Rooted in Equity”
- By: Julia Widmann
- News
In Houston, residents already feel the climate crisis’ impact. The low-lying city faces threats of sea level rise, storms of increasing strength and...
Aerial Photographs of Flooded Infrastructure in the St. Louis Region
- By: Missouri Confluence Waterkeeper
- News
By Missouri Confluence Waterkeeper Rachel Bartels. Republished with permission from Missouri Confluence Waterkeeper Missouri Confluence Waterkeeper Rachel...
Floods and Frustration: The New Normal in Kansas
- By: Julia Widmann
- News
NOTE: As of Friday, May 31st, officials warned of a potential evacuation for the town of Manhattan, Kansas, because of elevated levels at the Tuttle Creek...