Snowpack Melt Trend Signals Impending Summer Water Crisis in Western Regions
A study from the University of Colorado Boulder reveals that climate change is causing earlier snowmelt and increased rainfall in the mountain ranges of Western…
A study from the University of Colorado Boulder reveals that climate change is causing earlier snowmelt and increased rainfall in the mountain ranges of Western…
Merging data from multiple satellites, OPERA can help government agencies, disaster responders, and the public access data about natural and human impacts to the land….
According to recent research conducted by the University of Southampton, flash droughts have become more frequent as a result of human-induced climate change, and this…
A new study published in the journal Nature Water sheds light on the intricate relationship between droughts and conflicts in Central America. Researchers from Politecnico…
Europe has just endured its second warmest winter on record. Much of southern and western Europe has been affected by substantial anomalies of soil moisture…
Europe lacks groundwater – a lot of groundwater. The continent has already been suffering from a severe drought since 2018. This is confirmed by satellite…
Low water levels are making it difficult to ship goods down the Mississippi River and allowing a wedge of saltwater to move upstream. In the…
The ongoing drought has cut rice acreage in the Sacramento Valley in half. Normally the largest rice-growing region in California, the Sacramento Valley produces hundreds…
China’s largest freshwater lake drained by prolonged heat and drought. Between the winter and summer seasons, Poyang Lake, in China’s Jiangxi Province, routinely fluctuates in…
The second largest reservoir in the United States now stands at its lowest level since it was filled in the mid-1960s. Lake Powell, the second-largest…
A record-breaking drought has caused parts of the Yangtze River to dry up – affecting hydropower, shipping routes, limiting drinking water supplies, and even revealing…
Water levels on the Rhine River, Europe’s second-largest river, have continued to fall due to soaring temperatures and lack of rainfall. The low water levels…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Rising temperatures affect the plants that agriculture — and we —depend on. New research sheds light on how plants resist drought. All life forms have…