Have you ever stepped outside during a relentless summer, felt the heat press in, and wondered where all the water has gone?

And the concerns are notunique to Europe. A study released this year by the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and ...

The Guardian reports that new data from NASA is revealing a dramatic rise in the intensity of weather events over the past ...

New research from UC Santa Barbara reveals that the atmosphere’s drying capacity is outpacing increases to rainfall.

Learn about the effects of soybean drought stress, understand the financial consequences of leaving drought conditions ...

There are a few reasons a drought might occur, like changes in weather and climate, or if humans use water in a different way to usual. This can affect people, plants and animals, and can cause ...

Unless society stops pumping more greenhouse gases in the air, “we can expect multiple factors to worsen summer extremes,” a co-author said. “Heat waves will last longer, grow larger and get hotter.

Regina Barber and Rachel Carlson of Short Wave talk about humans' unique breathing patterns, how a hotter planet worsens ...

Re “Wildfire Risk Only Growing for Northeast” (front page, Nov. 21): This article leaves the impression that the drought in the Northeast this fall, which drove record wildfires, was caused by ...