17 rural communities in California are about to run out of water. They contain at least 11,000 people.

The drought extends across most of the state, but it is only a foretaste of what global heating will bring.

India passed a law to end manual scavenging of human wastes, but isn't implementing it very energetically.

Simply dictating "no more manual scavenging of human wastes" won't change anything in places where the systems require manual scavenging. What's needed is a program to build sewer systems and toilets connected to them. That will take money and time.

US citizens: call on Obama to permanently cancel plans to drill for oil in Alaskan Arctic waters.

US citizens: call on Congress to end the NFL's tax exemption.

Some penguin species are threatened by the effects of global heating.