The ferocity of this storm by October standards was impressive. It also led to one of the most bizarre shifts from drought to ...

Researchers at UC Santa Cruz contributed to a new global study published in Science that reveals how severe, long-term ...

La Niña has reemerged in the eastern Pacific, a climate pattern that typically drives dry winters across the U.S. Southwest.

While the West got some early rain and hope for a wet winter, conditions worsened in parts of the South, the southern plains, ...

California’s last wild salmon are one drought, and one more round of mismanagement, from vanishing from the state’s rivers, ...

All of California is now officially under a drought emergency, after Gov. Gavin Newsom extended his previous emergency order statewide on Tuesday. This declaration comes in the wake of record-breaking ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- More than 40 percent of California has emerged from a punishing drought that covered the whole state a year ago, federal drought-watchers said Thursday, a stunning transformation ...

Salmon is the second most consumed seafood in the U.S., and California is a major salmon contributor. But a new report shows the drought facing the state is killing a salmon species in the Sacramento ...

New research shows how a variety of natural disasters are impacting the nation's food supply, presenting costly challenges to ranchers and farmers who are already struggling.

SAN FRANCISCO -- In just one week, California's drought has gone from bad to worse. The latest map released Thursday by the U.S. Drought Monitor illustrates the increase when compared to a map from ...