The Latest Breaking News from Drought

The Western water crisis may be a wake-up call for the intensive dairy system

Three years of unrelenting rain for inland New South Wales has some farmers wishing the water away, despite coming off the back of drought.

The Interior Department announced Friday that it will consider revising a set of guidelines for operating two major dams on the Colorado River

Farmer Neil Cairns, of vegetable growers Barfoots, in Botley, West Sussex, said the summer drought and scorching temperatures reaching 40C means pumpkins are not as big this Halloween as usual

Nearly the entire stretch of the Mississippi River has experienced below average rainfall over the past two months, reducing water levels on the river to near record lows

Colorado can expect a warmer and drier winter, putting the state at greater risk of wildfire and lessening the chance of rebounding from the ongoing megadrought plaguing the West, climate scientists say.

A second world war-era boat, half emerged B-29 plane and five other bodies have so far been found in the receding waters

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Admirers of California’s Sierra Nevada mountains are familiar with the swaths of blackened trees flanking its sprawling green forest ranges. A new University of California, Berkeley study quantifies that devastation, finding nearly a third of southern Sierra conifer forests have died in the last decade.

Six areas are being moved to 'recovery'