The Latest Breaking News from Drought

Illinois hasn’t appeared in the rankings since since 2011, the longest drought in college football.

Drought and extreme heat have severely damaged much of the cotton harvest in the U.S., which produces roughly 35% of the world’s crop

SEATTLE — On a scale of 1 to Rick Rizzs, how much joy did you feel Friday when Cal Raleigh clinched a playoff berth for the Mariners?

In a change from dry conditions, families whose babies were born during the drought are now welcoming "rain babies" born in the record-breaking wet.

The federal agency plans to increase efforts to help states adapt to the effects of climate change most damaging to each region.

In today’s newsletter: One million people have already been displaced by the country’s second famine in just over ten years. This is how Somalia found itself in a dire situation once again

Global warming made drought conditions that gripped much of the Northern Hemisphere 20 times more likely, study finds.

Widespread drought that dried up large parts of Europe, the United States and China this past summer was made 20 times more likely by climate change, according to a new study

Record northern hemisphere drought in 2022 hit crops and power stations, worsening food and energy crises

Most Australians have known drought in their lifetimes, and have memories of cracked earth and empty streams, paddocks of dust and stories of city reservoirs with only a few weeks’ storage. But our new research finds over the last 1,000 years, Australia has suffered longer, larger and more severe droughts…

A lack of rain on the western coasts saw 65,000 dead salmon wash up on the creek