A study in Science Advances delivered the most detailed climate timeline for the Maya Terminal Classic, recording 44 years of severe drought between 871 and 1021 CE, including a 13-year dry spell ...

Flash droughts are severe droughts that rapidly intensify over weeks rather than seasons, desiccating land and ravaging livelihoods without warning. As a result, governments need to treat them as a ...

Data from the U.S. Drought Monitor released Thursday show most of Southeast Texas now considered at least abnormally dry, the precursor stage to drought. Moderate drought, the U.S. Drought Monitor's ...

The Barton Springs-Edwards Aquifer Conservation District declared a Stage 3 Exceptional Drought, effective Oct. 1, marking only the second time in its 38-year history. The declaration follows a sharp ...

A Texas conservation district has declared an "exceptional drought" for only the second time in its 38-year history, as ongoing water shortages and declining aquifer levels continue to plague the ...

Californians are losing ground on compliance with a state goal to cut water use by 20 percent during the state's historic drought, according to statewide water-use figures released Tuesday. Daily ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Formal protests filed against the proposed Evangeline groundwater project will now move into a new legal phase, after the local ...