The Latest Breaking News from Drought

In 2022, Associated Press photographers captured signs of a planet in distress as climate change reshaped many lives.

LAS VEGAS — The Colorado River’s largest reservoirs stand nearly three-quarters empty, and federal officials now say there is a real danger the reservoirs could drop so low that water would no longer flow past Hoover Dam in two years.

Elections, coups, disease outbreaks and extreme weather are some of the main events that occurred across Africa in 2022

More questions than answers are surfacing at a conference in Las Vegas about what to do about projected shortages of Colorado River water relied upon by seven U.S. states, Native American tribes and Mexico

Thanks to conservation efforts, there’s been some good news of late when it comes to Southern California’s population of bighorn sheep.

More than a million acres of state forest contain trees that have succumbed to stressors exacerbated by a multi-year drought

The nation's largest water supplier has declared a drought emergency for all of Southern California

LOS ANGELES — As California faces the prospect of a fourth consecutive dry year, officials with the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California have declared a regional drought emergency and called on water agencies to immediately reduce their use of all imported supplies.

Australia is a country of droughts and flooding rains — and that contrast is nowhere more starkly illustrated at the moment than SA's Riverland, where water is seeping into desiccated landscapes for the first time in decades.

Rivers are critical corridors that connect cities and ecosystems alike. When drought develops, water levels fall, making river navigation harder and more expensive.

Among America’s iconic native birds, the lesser prairie chicken can be especially hard to spot — hiding behind shrubs, seldom popping out except before sunrise in spring for flamboyant mating dances.