Toward that end, a UC Merced team contributed a chapter on “Artificial Intelligence for Multiscale Drought Modeling and ...

Heat and drought stress are major environmental factors that severely limit crop growth, productivity, and global food security. As climate change ...

In the Desert and Mountain West, towns like Kearny, Ariz., are already warning residents they could soon run out of water, but rationing so far has been patchy.

With snowpack among the worst on record, the Colorado River’s fragile beginnings are raising growing concerns about water ...

Early detection in California is “becoming one of the clearest climate‑era advantages,” according to Phillip SeLegue, Cal ...

A new U.S. Drought Monitor map shows large swaths of the country facing “extreme” to “exceptional” drought, with the most ...

While the March report from the Massachusetts Drought Management Task Force showed improvement in the state's drought condition, the latest report shows the state sliding back into dry conditions. At ...

The drought in Florida is one of the worst in years, sparking almost 2,000 wildfires and burning more than 120,000 acres ...

More than 44 million Americans live in regions now suffering under extreme drought. Drought isn’t new to Western states, but at present some of the nation’s worst drought is in the Southeast. There’s ...

The N.C. Forest Service map shows the 19 counties, in red, where the state-issued burn ban remains in effect. All Western North Carolina counties are shown in white, which means open burning is ...

This article was written by WTOP’s news partner, The Banner Montgomery, and republished with permission. Subscribe to The Banner Montgomery here. Federal officials have placed Maryland under a ...

Drought conditions across Iowa continued to ease as May approaches. That's in contrast to parts of the southeast, where worsening drought conditions are also fueling wildfires in states like Florida ...