A megadrought has sapped water supplies, ravaged farms and ranches, and fueled wildfires across the American Southwest for going on 25 years. Not in 12 centuries has the region been so dry for so long ...

The American West’s megadrought deepened so much last year that it is now the driest in at least 1,200 years and is a worst-case climate change scenario playing out live, a new study finds. A dramatic ...

Fish carcasses lie on dried mud on the shore of Lake Mead in 2022. The reservoir near Las Vegas is the largest on the Colorado River and stores water for Nevada, Arizona, California and Mexico. (Gina ...

A megadrought ailing the American West got even drier last year and is becoming the deepest dry spell in more than 1,200 years. A study out Monday said the megadrought is now the worst-case scenario ...

The changes on Lake Mead may not look as extreme as other areas due to the zoomed-out nature of these two snapshots, but the wide view affords us some important perspective. The shrinkage is still ...

A historic 'megadrought' and the climate connection: Examining the Western US drought crisis In this special presentation, the Scripps western stations dig into the drought and climate change crises ...

Hurricane Hunter flights boosted the accuracy of forecasts as much as 24%. The climate crisis is not a distant threat; it's happening right now and affecting what matters most to us. Hurricanes ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The American West’s megadrought deepened so ...