Tropical forests, often described as the lungs of the planet, may be edging closer to a dangerous threshold as droughts ...
But looking much further back reveals evidence of significantly more severe meteorological droughts – prolonged periods of ...
Like climate change in general, drought acts as a “threat multiplier,” and making the drought-climate connection helps ...
After a record fall, when nearly the entire United States experienced drought—unprecedented in US Drought Monitor history—water managers and planners nationwide are nervously hoping for a wet winter, ...
A recent Minnesota Pollution Control Agency report found that climate change could cost Minnesotans more than $20 billion a ...
Climate change-induced warming is drying out the American West by not only reducing precipitation, but also by accelerating evaporation — even amid adequate rainfall, a new study has found.
Researchers warn against oversimplifying climate change’s role in conflicts. But some conditions can increase the likelihood ...
The latest drought update shows that nearly 60 percent of North Carolina is experiencing extreme drought.
This article appears in the December 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. Twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina unleashed a levee-busting catastrophe on New Orleans that woke ...
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