Drought

Construction worker Felipe Campuzano pours water on his face to cool off as he digs a sanitation pipe ditch during a heatwave on August 4, 2022 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Mark Makela/Getty Images

May 23, 2024

Danger Season 2024: It’s Already Started

Erika Spanger-Siegfried
Director of Strategic Climate Analytics

Gas plant in California with pipeline in foreground

John Ciccarelli/BLM

September 13, 2023

Extreme Summer Weather Threatens Gas Power Plants. Here’s How.

Paul Arbaje
Energy Analyst

Mike Chiodini/Bureau of Land Management California

April 3, 2023

What Is Vapor Pressure Deficit (VPD) and What Is Its Connection to Wildfires?

Carly Phillips
Research Scientist

Carol Colman/Pixabay

March 29, 2023

These Attorneys General Are Defending the Fossil Fuel Industry, Not Their States

Elliott Negin
Former Contributor

Hundreds of acres of land in West Fresno, California, have been planted with water-thirsty nut trees.

Ángel S. Fernández-Bou

March 15, 2023

California’s Agriculture Has Outstanding Economic Performance, but at What Cost?

Ángel S. Fernández-Bou
Senior Climate Scientist

photo of a slice of pecan pie on a red and white plate in the foreground, with a snowman mug in the background

Karen Elliott Edleson/Flickr

December 20, 2022

Nuts, Drought, and My Quest for the Perfect Pecan Pie

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

NASA

August 24, 2022

Rare and Severe Weather Events Are Now More Common Thanks to Climate Change

Brenda Ekwurzel
Director of Scientific Excellence

ALUC 15/PIXABAY

May 17, 2022

Solutions to Climate Change-Fueled Droughts in the Western US

José Pablo Ortiz Partida
Senior Bilingual Water and Climate Scientist

Shutterstock/Casper1774 Studio

May 16, 2022

Soluciones a las sequías agravadas por el cambio climático

José Pablo Ortiz Partida
Senior Bilingual Water and Climate Scientist

USDA

March 15, 2022

In California’s Central Valley, Drought Is a Growing Threat to Farms, Food, and People

Marcia DeLonge
Former Contributor

Pablo Ortiz

March 7, 2022

Causes and Consequences of Epic Western US Drought

José Pablo Ortiz Partida
Senior Bilingual Water and Climate Scientist

Peter Szera (https://peterszera.com/)

December 16, 2021

Climate Change Impacts on California Central Valley: The Warning Shot the US Is Ignoring

José Pablo Ortiz Partida
Senior Bilingual Water and Climate Scientist

Jennifer Gidaro/Flickr

June 14, 2021

Can the US Survive California’s Drought?

José Pablo Ortiz Partida
Senior Bilingual Water and Climate Scientist

Brody Hessin/CC by 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

June 7, 2021

Is Another Brutal Heat and Wildfire Season in Store for US West? Here’s What We Know

Kristy Dahl
Principal Climate Scientist

NOAA and California Department of Water Resources

October 7, 2020

El cambio climático representa un gran desafío para la gestión del agua en California

José Pablo Ortiz Partida
Senior Bilingual Water and Climate Scientist

Florida Power & Light

January 9, 2018

Department of Energy Coal Bailout Rejected: Told to Get the Facts First

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

November 14, 2017

Water in an Uncertain Future: Planning the New Normal

Adrienne Alvord
Former Contributor

Ron Nichols/USDA NRCS

October 3, 2017

Congress Could Help Farmers, Prevent Pollution, and Reduce Flood and Drought Damage. Will They?

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

UCS

August 10, 2017

Floods, Droughts, and Soil: The Movie (or, Why I Destroyed a Small City for Page Views)

Andrea Basche
Former contributor

USDA-SARE/Edwin Remsberg

August 9, 2017

How Healthier Soils Help Farms and Communities Downstream Deal with Floods and Droughts

Andrea Basche
Former contributor

Ivette Perfecto and John Vandermeer in a shaded coffee farm in Chiapas, Mexico. They use diverse shaded coffee as a model system to study ecological complexity and its implications for farm management and biodiversity conservation.

August 2, 2017

Agroecology to the Rescue: 7 Ways Ecologists are Working Toward Healthier Food Systems

Marcia DeLonge
Former Contributor

USDA-ARS/Scott Bauer

July 12, 2017

Northern Plains Drought Shows (Again) that Failing to Plan for Disasters = Planning to Fail

Andrea Basche
Former contributor

Paul Hames / California Department of Water Resources

May 30, 2017

California’s Water Well Bill Will Tell Us Who’s Tapping Depleted Groundwater Basins

Juliet Christian-Smith
Western States Regional Director

Falling snow Photo: IStock

March 30, 2017

Survey Shows Abundant Snow, But Will it Stick?

Juliet Christian-Smith
Western States Regional Director