Conditions already mirror the state’s recent historic drought, but officials believe California can withstand the latest dry spell without environmental and agricultural disasters.
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Drought regulators give the bottlers of Arrowhead 20 days to drastically cut diversions of spring water in the San Bernardino National Forest as the Golden State preps for drought.
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A team of Stanford University researchers used computer modeling to map areas where increasing frequency and intensity of floods due to climate change might be used to stave off the ravages of drought in other parts of the state.
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Two consecutive dry winters in California have created drought-like conditions throughout the state. But Governor Gavin Newsom says a targeted approach is needed even as water supply issues loom.
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The man-made lakes that store water supplying millions of people in the U.S. West and Mexico are projected to shrink to historic lows in the coming months, dropping to levels that could trigger the federal government’s first-ever official shortage declaration and prompt cuts in Arizona and Nevada.
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Blue skies will smile on the American West for the next several months, according to federal meteorologists — bad news for a region already mired in a multiyear drought.
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A plan to reduce water allocated to farmers, ranchers and flows for helping endangered fish in the Pacific Northwest has left both the agricultural industry and conservationists unsatisfied.
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The aftermath of the brutal winter weather that struck Texas and other southern states is crystalizing as costs will exceed $10 billion; meanwhile, drought is expanding in the American West, where nearly a fifth of the entire territory is under the worst category of drought.
Read moreLonger droughts and spotty rainfall are a recipe for water shortage — something already being seen throughout much of the American West.
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Slinking deeper into drought after a second-consecutive dry winter, a new survey pegs statewide snowpack at just 59% of normal. The dwindling snowpack and shrinking reservoirs have officials and farmers readying for a long, dry summer.
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The bright side? Below-average precipitation also means less flooding is likely, especially in the Midwest.
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As California stares at two consecutive dry winters, farms and regular residents need to prepare for a campaign of water conservation this summer if a “March miracle” fails to materialize.
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Heavy rains followed by an extended drought, an increase in local consumption and a drop in the number of marijuana farmers have caused a shortage in the island’s famed but largely illegal market that experts say is the worst they’ve seen.
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A snow survey showed recent storms made up an enormous deficit in terms of California’s water supply needs but also showed more precipitation is needed to stave off the specter of drought.
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Nearly half of the lower 48 states are in some level of drought, according to federal climate scientists who aren’t optimistic about winter rains improving the situation — particularly in the hard-hit American West.
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SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Climate change is already buffeting Australia with extreme bushfires, droughts and cyclones, and the fossil-fuel reliant
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A report by the U.S. Drought Monitor on Thursday revealed what anyone living in California or the Southwest already know: We need rain. Badly.
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Parched fields stretch as far as the eye can see on plains overlooking Agadir in southwestern Morocco, as precious water resources are diverted from the drought-hit agricultural heartland to households.
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California’s frightening wildfire season is unlikely to get much help from the weather, with the U.S. government predicting that hot and dry conditions will continue throughout the winter.
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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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