As historic wildfires continue to burn across California, Oregon and other Western states, government climate experts say much of the U.S. is likely to see persistent drought conditions and fire risk alongside continued above-average temperatures through the fall.
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Climate change has boosted the amount of evaporation across Earth’s surface, leading to more frequent extreme weather events from megadroughts to monster hurricanes.
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Accusing California’s largest poultry plant of draining and spoiling an already drought-riddled aquifer, a Central Valley animal rights group is suing Foster Farms for wasting water during its chicken slaughtering process.
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Songbirds in tropical rainforests curtail their reproduction to help them survive droughts, according to a study Monday.
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Plenty of climate news Thursday but none of it is good for planet Earth or humanity: July 2020 was the second warmest July on record, the Arctic has less ice this summer than in 42 years of record-keeping, and Greenland’s ice sheet has melted so badly that even if global warming ended today, it would keep melting until it vanishes.
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The frequency of severe droughts across central Europe, such as the two-year spell that struck the region in 2018, is projected to climb by the end of the century if political leaders don’t drastically curb greenhouse gas emissions, researchers in Germany said in a study released Thursday.
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Puerto Rico’s governor on Monday declared a state of emergency as a worsening drought creeps across the U.S. territory amid a coronavirus pandemic.
Read moreThe California State Water Resources Control Board’s emergency orders during a drought, which set minimum water flow requirements for three tributaries of the Sacramento River, were not unreasonable or arbitrary, an appeals court in the state ruled. The orders were necessary to protect Chinook salmon and steelhead trout — two threatened fish species.
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Wildfires raging in the Florida Panhandle have forced nearly 500 people to evacuate from their homes, authorities said.
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California received some much-needed precipitation in March and April, a reprieve from a winter of clear skies, but it was not enough.
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Hotter temperatures from climate change will likely mean the worst megadrought the region has ever seen.
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Droughts will linger longer and flood waters will reach further inland due to climate change in the coming years, and those disasters will also prove to exacerbate armed conflicts in developing countries across the globe, new research posits.
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For most Americans, April 1 conjures images of practical jokes, pranks and other hijinks. But for the farmers and other water users throughout California, the date is something entirely different — the most important day in the state’s water year.
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Much of California remains in abnormally dry conditions and several regions in the north state are experiencing drought, according to the latest report released by the U.S. Drought Monitor Thursday.
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Amid an abnormally dry winter and the likelihood of a February with no measurable rain across a wide swath of Northern California for the first time in recorded history, drought conditions have spread across about a quarter of the Golden State.
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California slipped into drought once again as dry skies prevailed throughout the back half of January and the first half of February.
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Drought, wildfires and now flooding have given Australia’s weather an almost Biblical feel this year. The good news is that a recent deluge in eastern parts of the country has drenched deadly fires and helped ease a crippling drought.
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Heavy rains lashed parts of the wildfire and drought-stricken Australian east coast on Friday, bringing flooding in Sydney and relief to firefighters still dealing with dozens of blazes in New South Wales.
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Drought-breaking storms dumped desperately needed rain on some bushfire-ravaged parts of eastern Australia on Friday, giving joy to many farmers who faced losing precious livestock and crops.
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Thunderstorms and showers brought some relief for firefighters battling deadly wildfires across Australia’s drought-parched east coast on Wednesday, but also raised concerns that lightning will spark more fires before dangerous hot and windy conditions return.
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