Mississippi is in a drought, so if you plan to spruce up your yard with new plants this spring, look at there choices for ...

Worse than a normal drought cycle | Ranchers live on 'knife edge' For thousands of years, drought in Arizona has followed a familiar arc: Dry years stacked up, water supplies shrunk and snowpack ...

California’s snowpack is melting early despite near‑normal rain. Here’s what a “snow drought” is and why it affects water and ...

With the latest drought monitor released on Thursday, Feb. 19, the drought conditions continue to worsen across the state. We saw an increase in the severe drought coverage across the state from 68% ...

For the second time in the past two weeks, the U.S. Drought Monitor, a prominent national report, on Thursday classified 100% of California as being drought-free. That’s a rating that hasn’t occurred ...

Major snowpack deficits could set the stage for widespread water scarcity and heightened wildfire risk across the American West this summer. Reading time 3 minutes The mountains of the western United ...

LAKE TAHOE, Calif./Nev. – Temperature can mean the difference between four inches of rain and four feet of snow. That’s something the Tahoe region, and much of the west, has experienced this winter, ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Central Texas and the state as a whole continues to grapple with a deepening water deficit, according to the latest U.S. Drought Monitor released this week. A week-over-week comparison ...

New York officials announced Wednesday that 10 more New York counties were upgraded from a drought watch to a drought warning, and called on residents to reduce their water use whenever possible. A ...

Experts say that it’s too early to tell what will happen during the rest of the state’s rainy season, but that extreme drought is unlikely. By Sonia A. Rao Heavy rain and snow has pounded California ...