The Great Plains could be drying down into a new Dust Bowl
A new study says we should get ready for a blast from the past -- in all the wrong ways. ...
Tag: drought
Tropical songbirds reproduce less during drought
Climate change is going to make dry periods longer and more frequent.
GMO plants with algae grow more and need less water
Better photosynthesis and water efficiency means more food for everybody.
California will see both more flooding and more drought by the end of the century
Climate change will bring too much of both to the Sunny State.
Climate change will make droughts more intense, more frequent
New research from ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, Australia, says we'll see longer and more frequent droughts due ...
The 2000-2010 drought of the Missouri River was the worst one in 1,200 years
Droughts are becoming more frequent and more severe -- and they're threatening water resources.
Contrary to popular belief, drought actually leads to fewer snakebites
It seems that in this case, the popular belief was wrong.news
European drought reveals cautionary “Hunger Stones” in Czech river
Our forefathers left behind an ominous warning for us -- and we'd best heed it. Otherwise, we can start carving ...
Drought played a key role in the demise of the Mayan civilization
The Mayans expanded haphazardly, and they ended up paying the price for it -- but Mother Nature also had a ...
NASA creates first 3D model of Amazon rainforest canopy to estimate the effects of droughts, climate change
Drought has a massive effect on rainforests. Bad news in the current changing climate.
Europe will see a doubling of drought areas if climate change isn’t addressed
The Mediterranean, one of Europe's most beautiful areas, will bear the brunt of the damage.
Sierra Nevada rose an inch due to water loss from California drought
It was that bad.
New finding could help plants survive drastic droughts
With drought on the rise, this finding couldn't come at a better time.
This solar-powered device can squeeze water out of thin air — 3 liters a day
You can't squeeze blood from a stone, but you can squeeze water from thin air -- even in the driest ...
California’s dry spell may be officially over but some parts of the state will need decades for precipitation to recover
One step forward, two steps back.
Southern Europe might become a desert by 2100, which is really bad news
The paper's authors think it unlikely that we'll be able to prevent it.
Meet the Pipe: a beautiful desalinization plant that might one day serve 1.5 billion gallons of water to California
Who says desalinization isn't sexy?
Scientists find three times more groundwater beneath California’s Central Valley — but a third may already be contaminated
Stanford researchers found California's drought-struck Central Valley harbors three times more groundwater than previously thought.
Climate change is impacting wine grape harvest dates in Switzerland and France, NASA finds
A new collaboration study between NASA and Harvard University found that climate change is breaking an important link between droughts ...