Tag: drought

Critical drinking water supplies are on the verge of running out in the western USA.

The city's governor believes this is one of the very real effects of climate change.

Officials are calling for people to reduce 15 to 20% of their water use.

December was remarkably wet, but the drought is not done yet.

A new study says we should get ready for a blast from the past -- in all the wrong ways. ...

Climate change is going to make dry periods longer and more frequent.

Better photosynthesis and water efficiency means more food for everybody.

Climate change will bring too much of both to the Sunny State.

New research from ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, Australia, says we'll see longer and more frequent droughts due ...

Droughts are becoming more frequent and more severe -- and they're threatening water resources.

It seems that in this case, the popular belief was wrong.news

Our forefathers left behind an ominous warning for us -- and we'd best heed it. Otherwise, we can start carving ...

The Mayans expanded haphazardly, and they ended up paying the price for it -- but Mother Nature also had a ...

Drought has a massive effect on rainforests. Bad news in the current changing climate.

The Mediterranean, one of Europe's most beautiful areas, will bear the brunt of the damage.

It was that bad.

With drought on the rise, this finding couldn't come at a better time.

Talk about waste.

You can't squeeze blood from a stone, but you can squeeze water from thin air -- even in the driest ...

One step forward, two steps back.

The paper's authors think it unlikely that we'll be able to prevent it.

Who says desalinization isn't sexy?

Stanford researchers found California's drought-struck Central Valley harbors three times more groundwater than previously thought.

A new collaboration study between NASA and Harvard University found that climate change is breaking an important link between droughts ...

Agriculture is a very risky line of work since its inevitable once in a while extreme weather will take a ...

Vidal Mendoza, a U.S. Geological Survey hydrologic technician, has been spending his past Tuesday scanning the upper Guadalupe River, looking ...

The team looked at 15-years worth of data on California's grasslands, and documented declining plant diversity from 2000 to 2014 ...

California's record drought has completely dried off large swaths of rivers, including the San Joaquin River, which means that juvenile ...

Exploiting plants' natural response to stress caused by drought, researchers have engineered crops that build tolerance and can withstand longer ...

In recent years, a number of independent studies have concluded that the American Southwest and central Great Plains will experience extensive ...

In March 2014, the US and Mexican governments decided to release a flow of water down the Colorado River, in ...

According to a new study published by researchers working with the American Geophysical Union, the drought that California is experiencing ...

A snake-like trickle of water flows underneath Lake Oroville's Enterprise Bridge. Image credits: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images A new study shows ...

How bad is California's drought? Just look above. Photo: Wiki California is facing one of its direst drought streaks, and ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said in a statement that California just came off its warmest winter on ...

"Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die" - seems to be the motto at big oil companies. At ...

Deep in Africa, under some of our planet's most drought threatened areas lie massive water reserves - freshwater aquifers containing ...

It was a warm, drought plagued year - in July 2012, farmers in the U.S. Midwest and Plains regions watched ...

Around the globe, local climates are changing. Maybe you haven't noticed it yet, because in most regions this is a slow ...

According to a new report released by the Chinese authorities, global warming "threatens China's march to prosperity by cutting crops, ...

The problem of a water shortage has been on the table for quite a while now, and as time passes, ...

I've always found it strange that beavers are considered by some pests; besides being amazing animals with some amazing habits, ...