Tag: drought
2021’s climate disasters revealed an east-west weather divide, with one side...
Shuang-Ye Wu, University of Dayton
Alongside a lingering global pandemic, the year 2021 was filled with climate disasters, some...
Evacuations ordered as a powerful storm heads for California’s wildfire burn...
Amir AghaKouchak, University of California, Irvine
Officials issued evacuation orders for people living downhill from several of California’s wildfire...
Ancient groundwater: Why the water you’re drinking may be thousands of...
Marissa Grunes, Harvard University; Alan Seltzer, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and Kevin M. Befus, University of Arkansas
Communities that...
When hotter and drier means more – but eventually less –...
Maureen C Kennedy, University of Washington; Don McKenzie, University of Washington, and Jeremy Littell, US Geological Survey
There is...
As Colorado River Basin states confront water shortages, it’s time to...
Robert Glennon, University of Arizona
The U.S. government announced its first-ever water shortage declaration for the Colorado River on...
‘Megadrought’ along border strains US-Mexico water relations
Robert Gabriel Varady, University of Arizona; Andrea K. Gerlak, University of Arizona, and Stephen Paul Mumme, Colorado State University
Trees are dying of thirst in the Western drought – here’s...
Daniel Johnson, University of Georgia and Raquel Partelli Feltrin, University of British Columbia
Like humans, trees need water to...
Over 100 fire scientists urge the US West: Skip the fireworks...
Philip Higuera, The University of Montana; Alexander L. Metcalf, The University of Montana; Dave McWethy, Montana State University, and Jennifer Balch, University...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
