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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.
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 ...
In the last 50 years, droughts and heat waves destroyed 1/10 of crops
Agriculture is a very risky line of work since its inevitable once in a while extreme weather will take a ...
Drought and low aquifer levels made the Guadalupe river vanish
Vidal Mendoza, a U.S. Geological Survey hydrologic technician, has been spending his past Tuesday scanning the upper Guadalupe River, looking ...
California’s grasslands suffer from drought, reducing wildflower diversity
The team looked at 15-years worth of data on California's grasslands, and documented declining plant diversity from 2000 to 2014 ...
Dramatic Californian Drought Forces Salmon to Take the Highway
California's record drought has completely dried off large swaths of rivers, including the San Joaquin River, which means that juvenile ...
Biotech used to build plant tolerance to water shortage – one way to beat California’s worst drought in history
Exploiting plants' natural response to stress caused by drought, researchers have engineered crops that build tolerance and can withstand longer ...
US drought will be the worst in 1000 years
In recent years, a number of independent studies have concluded that the American Southwest and central Great Plains will experience extensive ...
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