Entries Tagged Drought

Entry 336332A new study projects that a hot and dry future climate may lead to a 29% decline in Upper Colorado River Basin “baseflow”...

In 2011, Texas experienced one of its worst droughts ever. The dry, parched conditions caused over $7 billion in crop and livestock...

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have created a balance sheet for water across the United States — tracking total...

A few weeks ago, one of my friends referenced a podcast or article he’d read about how the next great catastrophe will revolve...

Scientists are observing changes in the Earth’s climate in every region and across the whole climate system, according to the latest Intergovernmental...

The California Department of Water Resources is using an innovative, helicopter-based technology to gather information about the state’s groundwater aquifer structure to...

Reports of an ongoing megadrought — a prolonged drought lasting two decades or longer — in the American West continue to make...

A new study shows average temperatures have increased, annual rainfall has decreased, and dry periods have become longer and more variable across...

Today, the lakes around Cape Town are brimming with water, but it was only a few years ago that South Africa’s second-most...

It was the presence of a swift-moving stream that led to the founding of Roswell, Georgia, and its earliest infrastructure — a...

As with the stock market, climate change requires a diversified portfolio of solutions. California Gov. Gavin Newsom recently signed an executive order to develop a...

Entry 338919A 1.6 million gallon spill of untreated wastewater into Miami-Dade, Florida’s Oleta River has been contained, according to officials. The leak...

As Midwest states struggled with record spring flooding this year, the Southwest was wrestling with the opposite problem — not enough water....

President Donald Trump recently signed off on a piece of bipartisan legislation that aims to help manage ongoing drought conditions and climate...