The southwestern United States has already begun a long-predicted shift into a decidedly drier climate, a new study looking at...
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A year that bounced from drought to flooding, back to drought and then to flooding again finished as the wettest...
A canal that delivers vital water supplies from Northern California to Southern California is sinking in places. So are stretches...
The damage from California’s fast-spreading wildfires is usually expressed in acres destroyed, homes razed or people killed. But for the...
The carcasses of salmon, trout and more than a dozen other newly extinct native species lie in dry streambeds around...
With an El Nino growing in the Pacific Ocean and climate change spurring global temperatures ever higher, almost nothing can...
Wildfires are putting such a strain on the nation’s firefighting resources that authorities have activated the military and sought international...
In California, they’re counting on it to end an historic drought; in Peru, they’ve already declared a pre-emptive emergency to...
Hot, dry California was beginning to feel the full brunt of fire season as blazes burned throughout the state, threatening...
The odds that a weather-changing El Nino will last until the Northern Hemisphere’s next winter are increasing, though it’s too...