The western United States experienced a severe snow drought this year, threatening the region's water supply and potentially ...

We are two and a half decades into the Southwest’s most severe drought of the last 1,200 years, and this winter’s snow dearth is one of the most extreme on record.

The dangerous heat wave shattering March records all over the U.S. Southwest is more than just another extreme weather blip.

For east African neighbours Kenya and Somalia, the effects of climate change are worlds apart, with one country suffering drought and the other deadly flooding.

Researchers at UC Santa Cruz contributed to a new global study published in Science that reveals how severe, long-term drought affects crucial grassland and shrubland ecosystems around the world.

Americans in the US are willing to fork out extra money each month to drink recycled wastewater. With climate change intensifying drought in the country, cities are exploring ways to turn sewage into ...

Faced with extreme drought, these wildflowers adapted. Scientists call it "evolutionary rescue" and say it's a hopeful sign ...

Something extraordinary is happening across the American landscape, and it's unfolding slowly enough that many people simply ...

A severe and prolonged U.S. drought in the late 1980s played a central role in one of the largest fisheries declines ever ...

A potted scarlet monkeyflower would die within a few days without water. But multiple natural populations of the species ...

Water levels are the lowest they have been in about a decade, one airboat operator told the Miami Herald.