Tag: drought
Cotton breeders are using genetic insights to make this global crop...
Serina Taluja, Texas A&M University
Products derived from the cotton plant show up in many items that people use...
Alaska on fire: Thousands of lightning strikes and a warming climate...
Rick Thoman, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Alaska is on pace for another historic wildfire year, with its fastest start...
A water strategy for the parched West: Have cities pay farmers...
Robert Glennon, University of Arizona
“Are you going to run out of water?” is the first question people ask...
Trees aren’t a climate change cure-all – 2 new studies on...
William R.L. Anderegg, University of Utah
When people talk about ways to slow climate change, they often mention trees,...
Grim 2022 drought outlook for Western US offers warnings for the...
Imtiaz Rangwala, University of Colorado Boulder
Much of the western U.S. has been in the grip of an unrelenting...
The Southwest is on fire, iconic deserts and towns are at...
Molly Hunter, University of Arizona
New Mexico and Arizona are facing a dangerously early fire season. It has left...
US Climate risks are rising – a scientist looks at the...
Erica A.H. Smithwick, Penn State
When I was a young researcher studying how forested ecosystems recover from wildfire, I...
Cloud seeding might not be as promising as drought-troubled states hope
William R. Cotton, Colorado State University
Forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued their U.S. spring outlook...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
