The once-fertile earth beneath Harvey Schroeder’s feet has been cracked and dry for months. Last month was among the driest ...

The city, which typically gets about 4.5 inches of rain in October, got nothing. Sudden dry conditions will become more ...

Over 73 percent of land across the entire U.S. and Puerto Rico was under some degree of drought as of October 29.

One of the terms that many of us do not hear about very often is “flash drought.” This is a sudden and extreme dry spell that occurs over weeks to months, rather than years or decades. This event is ...

October 2024 brought record-setting drought to the U.S., with dry conditions covering more than half the country. A strong high-pressure system kept temperatures warm and rainfall scarce, driving ...

Or Dallas. Or several other U.S. cities that went from unusually wet in some cases to bone dry in a flash. In fact, “flash drought” is the term for this sort of phenomenon. It joins “zombie fire,” ...

Maybe it never rains in Southern California, but for about a month this fall it also never rained in New York City, which ...

The city attributes the decrease to such factors as improvements in spotting leaks. Last month, nearly half the country was ...

To make matters worse, recent data reveals that human-triggered fires are often more destructive and harder to contain than ...