Tag: drought
Is the Western drought finally ending? That depends on where you look
Dan McEvoy, Desert Research Institute
After three years of extreme drought, the Western U.S. is finally getting a break....
The West’s iconic forests are increasingly struggling to recover from wildfires...
Kimberley Davis, United States Forest Service; Jamie Peeler, University of Montana, and Philip Higuera, University of Montana
Wildfires and...
As climate change and overuse shrink Lake Powell, the emergent landscape...
Daniel Craig McCool, University of Utah
As Western states haggle over reducing water use because of declining flows in...
A new strategy for western states to adapt to long-term drought:...
Matthew E. Kahn, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and Bhaskar Krishnamachari, University of Southern California
Even...
How California could save up its rain to ease future droughts...
Andrew Fisher, University of California, Santa Cruz
California has seen so much rain over the past few weeks that...
1,000-year-old stalagmites from a cave in India show the monsoon isn’t...
Gayatri Kathayat, Xi'an Jiaotong University and Ashish Sinha, California State University, Dominguez Hills
In a remote cave in northeast...
A climate scientist on the planet’s simultaneous disasters, from Pakistan’s horror...
Andrew King, The University of Melbourne
Extreme floods are devastating Pakistan, caused by a...
58% of human infectious diseases can be worsened by climate change...
Tristan McKenzie, University of Gothenburg; Camilo Mora, University of Hawaii, and Hannah von Hammerstein, University of Hawaii
Climate change...