On March 31, an underwater pipeline carrying oil to a refinery in Balikpapan, Indonesia, broke, spreading crude over 20,000 hectares of Balikpapan Bay.

Our cities may not be running out of water yet, but people in Cape Town didn’t expect their water supply to go dry. The four-million residents of South Africa’s second-largest city could see their taps turned off by May 11, called “Day Zero” — or sooner, if people don’t obey severe water restrictions.

Reconciliation means many things, but access to clean water is an absolute requisite, writes David Suzuki.

Threatened and endangered species continue to disappear despite federal legislation designed to protect them and help their populations recover. What’s going wrong?