Squaw Valley, California is having yet another epic snow year, having received 400 inches of snow so far this winter. The previous three winters they received 495″, 728″ and 411″.
"Stable landslide" sounds like a contradiction in terms, but there are indeed places on Earth where land has been creeping downhill slowly, stably and harmlessly for as long as a century.
The Amazon rain forest isn't necessarily a place that many would associate with a drought, yet prolonged dry spells are projected to become more prevalent and severe because of climate change.
Snake oil saleswoman Katharine Hayhoe took advantage of the 2011 drought in Texas to declare herself a climate expert – by blaming it on humans. Texas precipitation has been increasing since the...
Two states in the U.S. West have work to do on a plan to combat the shrinking supply of Colorado River water that 40 million people depend on but that's threatened by a prolonged drought, a federal...
People forced to migrate as a result of drought may no longer have easy access to the support of family and friends or to HIV treatment, Low, the study’s lead author, told the Thomson Reuters...
The field of climate science seems to contain many examples of alarming runaway feedback loops, vicious cycles, and previously unimagined detrimental synergistic effects arising within Earth...
Populations of coastal cutthroat trout and coastal giant salamanders in the Pacific Northwest show the ability to rebound quickly from drought conditions, new research by Oregon State University...
The deaths of a million of fish in the lower Darling River system over the past few weeks should come as no surprise. Quite apart from specific warnings given to the NSW government by their own...
The fires in Yellowstone National Park began to burn in June 1988. A natural feature of the landscape, park managers expected the fires to fizzle out by July, when rains historically drenched the...
UC Merced researchers have evidence that California's forests are especially vulnerable to multi-year droughts because their health depends on water stored several feet below ground.
Standing in his garden in Kabul, Baz Mohammad Kochi oversees the drilling of a new well more than 100 metres deep after his first water reservoir dried up. He is not alone.
A major new study, led jointly by the University of Liverpool and the Natural History Museum, has discovered that termites mitigate against the effects of drought in tropical rain forests.
Termites are highly abundant in tropical ecosystems. They are one of the few living creatures that can break down cellulose found in plant material. They create temporary above-ground protective...
S. Milius. It’s official: Termites are just cockroaches with a fancy social life. Science News. Vol. 193, March 31, 2018, p. 7. T. Sumner. The ‘super’ El Niño is over, but La Niña looms.
In her book Silent Spring, Rachel Carson writes: "The sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories…." You might wonder how this relates to microorganisms.
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| 12/14/2018
| Phoebe Weston For Mailonline
Heartbreaking images reveal the devastating effects a 30-year-long drought is having in Kerman Province in southern Iran and the impact climate change is already having on the planet.
If you drove through the Hamoun Wetlands of southeastern Iran centuries ago, you would have found an oasis. In the rainy season, lakes and marshes have drenched its more than 1,500 square miles,...
Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) have developed a complex hydrological model for forecasting dry spells lasting several weeks with high...
Wheat and opium farmer Murad Khan Ishaqzai, 80, has never seen a drought as bad as the one ravaging western Afghanistan where more than 250,000 people have been forced to abandon their homes.
El Nino is responsible for warming ocean temperatures, which in turn leads to fewer major storms as it is more difficult for them to form over warmer seas. However, with a weak El Nino predicted...
MADRID/SYDNEY (Reuters) – A jump in the price of wool from drought-ravaged Australia, the world’s top exporter of high-quality fleeces, is rattling through the global clothing supply chain, with some...
“Scientists who study the West’s long-term climate patterns say that California has had multiple droughts of 10 or 20 years in a row during the past 1,000 years — and two severe “megadroughts” of 180.
Scientists at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science in Japan have found that the protein NGA1 is critical for plants to have normal responses to dehydration.
Two thirds of the US has had above normal precipitation over the last three years, including nearly half of California. Thirty years ago, James Hansen predicted a huge increase in drought, and said...
Ana Caño-Delgado has been studying how the plant steroids -the brassinosteroids- regulate plant development and growth in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana for more than 15 years.
Extreme drought is one of the effects of climate change that is already occurring. This year, the decrease in rainfall and the abnormally hot temperatures in northern and eastern Europe have caused...
Imagine what happens when you forget to water your plants for a week or two. More often than not, they will still be fine after you give them water again. This seems simple enough, but it is...
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| 11/1/2018
| James Wood For Mailonline
Iconic wild animals living in Australia - from baby kangaroos to Koalas - are struggling to adapt to a crippling drought, ecologists are warning. The 'big dry', lasting for several years in some...
From abandoned baby kangaroos to wallabies being blinded by the sun and koalas having to go walkabout to look for eucalyptus leaves, Australia's exotic wild animals are struggling to adapt to a...
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| 10/30/2018
| Cheyenne Macdonald For Dailymail.com
More than a century ago, the world experienced a set of naturally occurring, freak climate conditions that spurred the most devastating drought in the last 800 years.
With drought ravaging Australia's eastern states, much attention has been given to the need to provide short-term solutions through drought relief. But long-term resilience is a vital issue,...
A University of Oklahoma meteorologist, Elinor R. Martin, expects severe drought and long-lasting rainfall events to worsen in the future. In Martin's new study just published, she determines how...
The docks are eerily quiet at Cologne's main port on the mighty River Rhine, with hundreds of containers piled up and awaiting their journey north on one of Europe's busiest commercial arteries.
Months of drought have left water levels on Germany's Rhine river at a record low, exposing a World War II bomb and forcing ship operators to halt services to prevent vessels from running aground.
It's harvest time and the chips are down for potato producers in northern France where a long summer drought could see French spuds shrink in size and volume. The potatoes "first lacked water and...
Flash drought is a rapidly intensifying water deficit process accompanied by high temperatures in a short period of time. Recently, heat extremes have become more frequent in a warming climate, and...
One in 10 Americans depends on the Colorado River for bathing and drinking. Last fall's record-high temperatures reduced Colorado snowpack in winter 2018 to 66 percent of normal, sparking concern...
Australia has never been a stranger to droughts, but climate change is now super-charging them. Besides taking a toll on human health, droughts also bake the earth.
A Washington State University researcher has completed the most thorough analysis yet of The Great Drought—the most devastating known drought of the past 800 years—and how it led to the Global...
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| 10/8/2018
| Phoebe Weston;Harry Pettit For Mailonline
Humanity must radically change its diet, give up petrol cars and almost completely cut its use of coal in order to save itself from climate change. That's according to a damning new UN report, which...
Farmers in drought-stricken parts of Australia are celebrating after the heavens opened up this week, inundating parched lands with more than a month's rain in one day following the country's driest...
We had more than one fourth of our average annual rainfall in Phoenix yesterday. This guy did a couple of doughnuts before he sank into the swamp. Before the rain arrived it was windy.
Economic losses caused by drought in China may double if the global temperature rises by 1.5°C to 2.0°C above pre-industrial levels, with increasing drought intensity and areal coverage across...
Ending a title drought that stretched back to July 2015, Australian qualifier Bernard Tomic completed an epic run at the Chengdu Open by beating top-seeded Italian Fabio Fognini 6-1, 3-6, 7-6 (7) in...
Droughts occur in nearly all types of climate. Of all the weather-related phenomena that can cause severe economic impacts in the United States, droughts come in second only to hurricanes, according...
Seven years ago, Bill Clinton’s science advisor announced the southwest permanent drought. Current forecast is Phoenix will get more than 100% of our average annual rainfall in the next two weeks.
(Reuters) – Tiger Woods won his first title since 2013 when he captured the Tour Championship by two strokes in Atlanta on Sunday. Woods led throughout the final round and finished at 11-under-par...
Diversity is strength, even among forests. In a paper published in Nature, researchers led by University of Utah biologist William Anderegg report that forests with trees that employ a high...