On a small Indonesian island, a tiny human species once thrived in caves above a lush river valley, only to vanish as the ...

ED:IE RIGHT NOW, WE ARE IN WHAT IS BEING CALLED A MEGA DROUT.GH THAT IS ACCORDING TO A NEW STUDY RELEASED BY UCLA. GULSTAN: IT IS GETTING ATTENTION ONLINE, BUT WHAT DOES MEGA DROUGHT MEAN? HERE TEXO ...

The American West was once seen as a place of endless possibilities: grand vistas, bountiful resources, and cities that somehow grew out of deserts. Now, manifest destiny has become a manifest ...

The American West’s megadrought deepened so much last year that it is now the driest in at least 1,200 years and is a worst-case climate change scenario playing out live, a new study finds. A dramatic ...

Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his family live 100% energy and water independent on his off-grid compound in the New Mexico desert. Eric uses his passion for writing about ...

The industry that overwhelmingly uses the most water resources in the West does so for good reason: to provide sustenance for the rest of the country. Globally, the agriculture sector uses 70% of all ...

A megadrought has sapped water supplies, ravaged farms and ranches, and fueled wildfires across the American Southwest for going on 25 years. Not in 12 centuries has the region been so dry for so long ...

PHOENIX - The federal government is expected to restrict Arizona's water supply even more in the coming months due to the megadrought, heading into the new year. However, no one knows exactly what ...

The American West's megadrought deepened so much last year that it is now the driest in at least 1,200 years and is a worst-case climate change scenario playing out live, a new study finds. A dramatic ...

The word "megadrought" isn't new in the science community. It's been in use since the early 1990s. But new findings from research conducted at UCLA have the word making headlines in the Western U.S.

A dramatic drying in 2021 — about as dry as 2002 and one of the driest years ever recorded for the region — pushed the 22-year drought past the previous record-holder for megadroughts in the late ...