Drought
Can Phoenix grow without groundwater? Only if the price is right.
Arizona has paused new housing construction around the city, citing a water shortage.
Read MoreAs the nation’s second-largest reservoir recedes, a once-drowned ecosystem emerges
Lake Powell reached record low levels, revealing a landscape that environmentalists call a “lost national park.”
Read MoreAt last, states reach a Colorado River deal: Pay farmers not to farm
The Biden administration has temporarily resolved a dire water crisis — with help from a wet winter.
Read MoreAs drought grips the Horn of Africa, humanitarian aid is no match for climate change
Experts say the hunger crisis in Somalia and Ethiopia highlights an urgent need for adaptation funding.
Read MoreTexas’ water infrastructure is broken, jeopardizing quality and supply for a growing state
On a daily basis, water managers in cities across the state move from crisis to crisis hoping to keep the water flowing to residents.
Read MoreAmid Continuing Drought, Arizona Is Coming up With New Sources of Water—if Cities Can Afford Them
BUCKEYE, Ariz.—Sixty miles west of Phoenix along the I-10 freeway to the California border lies what many Valley cities with limited water supplies and investment companies see as an answer to helping solve Arizona’s water woes: the Harquahala Basin. It’s one of three basins in the state where groundwater can be pumped out and sent […]
Read MoreThe little-known Nevada company making millions off the Western water shortage
A small Nevada company spent decades buying water. As the West dries up, it’s cashing out.
Read MoreAn Agricultural Drought In East Africa Was Caused by Climate Change, Scientists Find
A group of scientists have concluded that a devastating drought in the Horn of Africa, where tens of millions of people and animals have been pushed into starvation, would not have happened without the influence of human-caused climate change. World Weather Attribution, an organization that quickly assembles scientists to determine the impact of climate change […]
Read MoreThe very bad math behind the Colorado River crisis
A century-old miscalculation has California and Arizona fighting over water. Again.
Read MoreIntensifying Cycle of Extreme Heat And Drought Grips Europe
For Chloe Brimicombe, a climate researcher at the University of Graz in Austria, the heat and drought statistics in today’s new European State of the Climate Report for 2022 evoked grim memories of the deadly heat waves last summer in Reading, her hometown in the United Kingdom, where people died from heat exposure while waiting for […]
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