Given President Trump’s expressed openness to bombing Iran 'back to the Stone Ages,' Americans should acquaint themselves with the U.S. Army campaign that killed some 7,000 civilians.

Jacques Leslie is the author of Deep Water: The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment, winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award for its “elegant, beautiful prose.” He is a Los Angeles Times contributing opinion

The Trump administration is using illegal funding cuts and questionable regulatory sleight of hand to divert water to farmers and away from tribes.

With discretion and respect for Native Americans, a BC Law alum helps restore a river, its salmon, and its people to their rightful places.

In 2017, an orthopedic surgeon named Karl Wenner bought a one-fifth share in Lakeside Farms, a barley farm near his home in Klamath Falls, Oregon. His intention was to spend his impending retirement hunting ducks, which were attracted to the farm…

The president's slash-and-burn funding cuts are betraying California and Oregon tribes, farmers and salmon along the Klamath River.

How tribal leaders, commercial fisherman and a few small environmental groups won an uphill campaign against dams.

Despite continued opposition, the World Bank has approved the first of five big dam projects expected to get its support in the coming months. Climate change has upped the need for renewable energy, but the environmental and social costs of building

Send us a text In this episode of Whiskey and a Map, award winning journalist and author Jacques Leslie recounts his years as a war correspondent covering the wars in Vietnam and Cambodia and the Indira Gandhi crises in India. At the age of 24,…

By Jacques Leslie (Jacques Leslie is a Los Angeles Times contributing opinion writer and the author of Deep Water: The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment, winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award for its…

The collapse of two Libyan dams earlier this month is likely to herald a grim new dam era, in which the decline of dam building accelerates and deadly dam failures become more and more common. The consequences could be catastrophic for millions of…

The end of the big dam era is approaching. Numerous recently published reports reflect this planet-altering fact. One study, conducted by scholars at the United Nations University’s Institute for Water, Environment and Health, found that construction…

Two decades ago, when the Klamath River basin was considered the most embattled watershed in the country, the idea of removing the river’s four hydroelectric dams was considered laughable. Yet on Thursday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission…

The U.S. housing shortage is so severe that demand outstrips supply by a stunning 3.8 million homes⁠, according to Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored mortgage dealer. The shortage exacerbates homelessness, income inequality, and even climate…

Heat pumps aren’t usually considered war-fighting materiel, but these heating-and-cooling appliances could be almost as crucial to the defense of Ukraine as antitank and antiaircraft missiles. Heat pumps are basically air conditioners that can also…

This story originally appeared on Yale Environment 360 and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Covid pandemic has rightly received most of the blame for global supply chain upheavals in the past two years. But the less publicized impact of…

The impact of the Covid pandemic on the global supply chain has been widely reported. But extreme weather, from floods to wildfires, is increasingly hammering ports, highways, and factories worldwide, and experts warn these climate-induced…

As a forbiddingly deep drought reclaims its hold on California, the state’s record precipitation in October and December is already a distant memory, and the list of urgent water issues we face keeps getting longer. Forecasters predict little or no…

This story originally appeared on Yale Environment 360 and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Joseph Manning, a Yale University professor of ancient history, likes to recall the moment when he was shown an advance copy of a scholarly paper…

Joseph Manning, a Yale University professor of ancient history, likes to recall the moment when he was shown an advance copy of a scholarly paper that pinpointed the timing of major volcanic eruptions over the last 2,500 years. As he read the paper,…