Go on your own journey with explorer Wade Davis in this week's Foreword Friday.
Island Press Field Notes
This week, more than 193 nations will celebrate Earth Day. The annual event is a marker for the environmental movement begun on April 22, 1970, when Wisconsin Sen. Gaylord Nelson organized a peaceful teach-in. At the time, rivers were on fire, oil spills...
A student in one of our University of New Mexico Water Resources Program classes asked last week what the magic trick was to finding water data. We’d asked the students to do some really challenging modeling of the flow of water through New Mexico’s...
How can other suburban cities extract lessons from Phoenix’s successes to work towards their own sustainable future?
April is the month of rain. At least it is in our world: the mid-Atlantic U.S. With sincere apologies to readers who live in current drought, here in Pennsylvania we typically have reminded ourselves that “April showers bring May flowers,” and so we...
There’s no way to pin down the moment I started working on my book Water is For Fighting Over, coming from Island Press this fall.
In honor of World Water Day 2016, this week's #ForewordFriday is all about water—and how Americans can't seem to get enough of it. ...
An attempted Niagara Bottling Company water grab in iconic Woodstock New York was a defining moment for Rachel Marco Havens. In Rachel’s words, her story is about “a beautiful lake in a little town with a BIG voice, and the taxpayer-funded,...
The Ranter recalls playing an unexpected concert on the banks of the Truckee River.
Honestly, I never thought developing a web app would lead me to the banks of the Dead Sea.