Welcome to Boiling Point. I’m Ian James, a reporter on The Times’ climate team, writing the newsletter this week to fill in for my colleague Sammy Roth. Farmers who grow hay in the Imperial Valley ...

Morocco is experiencing fluctuations in water availability exacerbated by the impacts of climate change, resulting in declining rainfall, groundwater depletion and alarming degradation of water ...

Automated sprinklers are convenient and will help you revive a dying lawn, but there’s nothing advanced about them. Once you set the sprinkler schedule, that’s it, there’s nothing more they can do.