A Santa Paula cattle rancher walks away from the carcass of one of his animals that died amid extreme drought conditions in 2014. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) Humanity’s heating of the planet, driven ...

Drought conditions have gripped nearly the entire country, with only one state spared as a bone-dry autumn left most states parched. In November, Kentucky became the 49th state to cross into drought ...

More than a dozen states, extending from the Ohio Valley and northern Mid-Atlantic to the South, are under some level of drought, according to federal forecasters. In some areas, the drought is so ...

Dec. 3 (UPI) --A nearly billion-dollar investment will go to almost a dozen western states for critical upgrades to water delivery and drought resilience infrastructure, the U.S. Department of the ...

Missouri lawmakers are making it more difficult to take water out of the state without a permit, after raising concerns about drought and water scarcity in the west. The Missouri legislature passed a ...

Governors in New York and New Jersey have begun warning residents to save water as an unusual drought grips the region. State leaders on the Eastern Seaboard are scrambling to deal with something ...

As extreme heat and drought worsen across the southern and western United States, some regions may become nearly unbearable ...

LOS ANGELES — Humanity’s heating of the planet, driven by the burning of fossil fuels and unchecked emissions of greenhouse gases, has become the main driver of worsening droughts in California and ...