Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — It’s no secret that a few locations in the DMV have experienced drought conditions in the past several ...

As droughts in the United States become more frequent and longer-lasting, new assessment tools are needed. A new National ...

An international research team based across Canada, China and the US have said developers must stop focusing not only resource availability, and also consider resource variability and resource ...

Droughts are becoming more severe and widespread across the globe. But it's not just changing rainfall patterns that are to blame. The atmosphere is also getting thirstier. In a new study published in ...

Drought is back in California. Samuel Sandoval Solis, an associate professor at UC Davis and UC Cooperative Extension specialist, is an expert in water resources management who aims to create better ...

A research team led by Professor Jonghun Kam from POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology) has revealed that typhoons are a critical factor in mitigating global droughts by simulating a ...

This consensus study committee will consider approaches to understanding and assessing drought in the United States. This review will encompass data sources, metrics, and indicators for characterizing ...

Hot air holds more moisture. That’s why you can blow your hair dry even after a steamy shower. It’s also what dumps rain in the tropics and sucks water from desert soils. A new study, published in ...

Climate models reveal how human activity may be locking the Southwest into permanent drought A new wave of climate research is sounding a stark warning: Human activity may be driving drought more ...

Gov. Phil Murphy and the state's Department of Environmental Protection issued a drought warning in December, according to NorthJersey.com. A prior drought warning had ended just six months earlier in ...