California’s Epic Drought Is Parching Reservoirs and Worrying Farmers June 3, 2021 By Leslie Kaufman and Eugene Reznik There is dry, and then there is desiccated. As any movie fan knows from the classic film Chinatown, California is...
As Drought Intensifies, California Seeing More Wildfires May 26, 2021 By Don Thompson SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — As California sinks deeper into drought it already has had more than 900 additional wildfires than...
Water Crisis ‘Couldn’t Be Worse’ on Oregon-California Border May 17, 2021 By Gillian Flaccus PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The water crisis along the California-Oregon border went from dire to catastrophic this week as federal...
Drought Shows No Signs of Easing Up Throughout Dakotas May 11, 2021 By Blake Nicholson BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Extreme drought shows no signs of releasing its grip on North Dakota, despite recent cooler weather...
America’s New Normal: A Degree Hotter Than Two Decades Ago May 5, 2021 By Seth Borenstein America’s new normal temperature is a degree hotter than it was just two decades ago. Scientists have long talked about...
Facing Severe Drought, North Dakotans Turn to Higher Sources April 27, 2021 By Travis Svihovec and Blake Nicholson BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Leaders of a Bismarck church last Sunday morning took the first steps in organizing a communitywide...
Dry Tinderbox Conditions Raise Concern About Another Drought April 19, 2021 A messy nor’easter wasn’t enough to make up for a lack of late-season snow and dry spring weather, which is...
New Mexico Acequias Prepare for Brutal Year Amid Drought April 19, 2021 By Kyle Land TALPA, N.M. (AP) — It was a scenic day in Talpa, a small village in Taos County, and that concerned...
Epic Drought Means Water Crisis on Oregon-California Border April 16, 2021 By Gillian Flaccus PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Hundreds of farmers who rely on a massive irrigation project that spans the Oregon-California border learned...
Nervous North American Farmers Set to ‘Seed in Faith’ Into Parched Soils April 15, 2021 By Rod Nickel and Julie Ingwersen WINNIPEG, Manitoba/CHICAGO — Fields across the Canadian Prairies and the U.S. Northern Plains are among the driest on record, raising...