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The western US is in a snow drought, and storms have...

Alejandro N. Flores, Boise State University Much of the western U.S. has started 2026 in the midst of a...

As the Colorado River slowly dries up, states angle for influence...

Sarah Porter, Arizona State University The Colorado River is in trouble: Not as much water flows into the river...

California farmers identify a hot new cash crop: Solar power

Jacob Stid, Michigan State University; Annick Anctil, Michigan State University, and Anthony Kendall, Michigan State University Imagine that you...

California plan to ban most plants within 5 feet of homes...

Max Moritz, University of California, Santa Barbara and Luca Carmignani, San Diego State University One of the most striking...

Solar panels’ shade helps boost Colorado grassland productivity in dry years

Matthew Sturchio, Colorado State University Grasses growing in the shade of a solar array were only a little less...

Drought can hit almost anywhere: How 5 cities that nearly ran...

Sara Hughes, University of Michigan and Michael Wilson, Pardee RAND Graduate School Water scarcity is often viewed as an...

Unprecedented drought in the Amazon threatens to release huge stores of...

Gemma Ware, The Conversation As world leaders and their climate negotiators gathered at the COP28 climate summit in...

Exposing plants to an unusual chemical early on may bolster their...

Brad Binder, University of Tennessee Just like any other organism, plants can get stressed. Usually it’s conditions like heat...

EXPLORING NATURE

Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...

Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma