Utah’s Great Salt Lake Is Disappearing – Megadrought Persists Across the US Southwest
Utah’s Great Salt Lake dropped to its lowest recorded water level last month as a megadrought persists across the US southwest. This has forced the…
Drought
Lake Mead Keeps Dropping: Water Levels Are at Their Lowest Since 1937
Water levels in Lake Mead are at their lowest since April 1937, when the reservoir was still being filled for the first time, continuing a…
Po River – The Longest River in Italy – Dries Up
The Po River, the longest river in Italy, is hitting record low water levels after months without heavy rainfall. The Copernicus Sentinel-2 animation above shows…
Dwindling Water Levels of Lake Powell Seen From Space – Second-Largest Man-Made Reservoir in the US
After decades of drought, water levels in Lake Powell, the second-largest human-made reservoir in the United States, have shrunk to their lowest level since it…
NASA Researchers Untangle Puzzling Patterns of Sinking and Rising Land To Monitor Underground Water Loss
Researchers have untangled puzzling patterns of sinking and rising land to pin down the underground locations where water is being pumped for irrigation. Scientists have…
New Research Reveals What Plants Need To Withstand Drought
Rising temperatures affect the plants that agriculture — and we —depend on. New research sheds light on how plants resist drought. All life forms have…
Scientists Warn of Severe and Widespread Drought in the 21st Century
Drought is among the most damaging natural hazards in the world, often causing severe losses to agriculture, ecosystems, and human societies. Historical records of precipitation,…
Dry Rice: Cracking the Core Physiological and Molecular Traits of Drought-Tolerant Rice
Study links gene expression patterns to traits that improve drought tolerance in rice plants. For many smallholder farmers in South and Southeast Asia, rice is…
Flash Floods Swamp Iran: Burst of Rain Causing Problems After Months of Severe Drought
After months of severe drought, a burst of rain is causing problems. For much of 2021, drought gripped southern Iran, parching crops, drying wells, and fueling protests over…
“Extreme” Drought Affecting Agricultural Lands in the Northern Great Plains
Warm and dry conditions continue to affect agricultural lands in the U.S. Northern Plains and the Canadian Prairies. Decades of drought across the U.S. Southwest has led…
Lake Powell – The Second Largest Reservoir in the United States – Reaches New Low
Water levels at Glen Canyon Dam have fallen to their lowest level since 1969 and are still dropping. As North America approaches the end of…
Strategies To Meet Future Water Demands and Improve Drought Resiliency Identified in Upper Missouri River Basin Study
The Bureau of Reclamation released the Missouri River Headwaters Basin Study that provides options to meet the increased water demand and a change in the…
Water in Bedrock Is Sustaining Trees Across Country – Long-Held Assumptions About Where Trees Get Their Water Overturned
You can’t squeeze water from a rock. But tree roots can — and they’re doing it more frequently than scientists previously thought, with a new…
Lake Mead – The Largest Reservoir in the United States – Drops to a Record Low
The reservoir stands at its lowest level since the 1930s. Lake Mead is the largest reservoir in the United States and part of a system…
California Is Burning – And the Emissions From Destructive Fires Are Adding Up
Several destructive fires have charred landscapes in northern California, and their emissions are adding up. The worst of California’s fire season typically comes in autumn,…
Let Them Burn? How Wildfire Restored a Lost Forest Ecosystem in Yosemite
Half a century of allowing lightning fires to burn in Yosemite’s Illilouette Creek Basin has created a lost forest ecosystem that is far more resilient…
2.5 Billion Trees and Vines Killed in Epicenter of Major Amazon Droughts and Fires
A major drought and forest fires in the Amazon rainforest killed billions of trees and plants and turned one of the world’s largest carbon sinks…
California Reservoirs Reflect Deepening Drought – Worst They Have Been Since the 1970s
Precipitation totals and lake levels are among the worst they have been since the 1970s. Just four years after emerging from a severe multi-year drought, California…
