Mar 22 Watch Coping With Climate Change: 2 Texas Towns Struggle for Water The recent drought and record temperatures in Texas put an unprecedented strain on water resources across the state. As part of NewsHour's Coping with Climate Change series, Hari Sreenivasan reports on the plight of two towns in their struggle for… Continue watching
Mar 20 Coping With Climate Change: Texas Water Woes By Saskia de Melker The drought in Texas has put an unprecedented strain on the state's already tenuous water supply. In the face of continued climate uncertainty and a growing population, Texas communities face the stark reality of a future without enough water. Continue reading
Mar 19 Watch Texas Dispatch: Drilling Deeper for Water For more on this story, go to http://www.pbs.org/newshour/… Continue watching
Mar 15 Watch What's Causing Water Shortages in Ghana, Nigeria? Two journalists investigate the challenges of bringing the most basic necessity to the people of Ghana and Nigeria: clean, safe water. As part of a collaboration with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, special correspondent Steve Sapienza followed them as… Continue watching
Mar 08 Watch Oregon Farmers Surprised to Find Fish in Fields Researchers in Oregon's Willamette Valley found young native fish thriving in ditches that fill with water during the winter months. The unrecognized habitat meant farmers had been inadvertently raising fish in their fields, in addition to their intended crops, for… Continue watching
Feb 28 Watch Ethiopia: A Battle for Land and Water A controversial resettlement program in Ethiopia is the latest battleground in the global race to secure prized farmland and water. Correspondent Cassandra Herrman reports as part of the Food for 9 Billion series, a NewsHour partnership with the Center for… Continue watching
Feb 20 Watch Red Cross Seeks Cease-Fire to Deliver Medical Supplies in Syria Red Cross Seeks Ceasefire to Deliver Medical Supplies in Syria… Continue watching
Aug 08 Can Seawater Solve Our Water Woes? By Talea Miller Photo by Flickr user Allan Foster. Most of the earth is covered by water, yet more than a third of the global population experiences periodic shortages of the kind used for drinking and agriculture. So why not convert seawater into… Continue reading
Jul 20 Watch Much of U.S. Broils Under Extraordinarily Massive 'Heat Dome' Nearly 200 million Americans spent Wednesday under some form of warning about the relentless, stifling combination of extreme heat and humidity, which formed a so-called "heat dome" over a vast region. Jeffrey Brown reports. Continue watching
Jul 11 Drought Threatens Horn of Africa By Talea Miller Tens of thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes in Somalia and Ethiopia due to severe drought and food shortages. Continue reading