Santa Ana winds are blowing through California, and parts of the state are at an increased risk of wildfires because of ...

Heavy rain in Southern California. (Photo courtesy of the National Weather Service) The source of a region’s rainfall — whether it comes from the ocean or the land — can be a key indicator of how ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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. SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/ KUSI) — While San Diego ...

This U.S. Drought Monitor continues to show improvement in drought-related conditions across multiple areas. The Midwest (Iowa and Minnesota), central and northern Plains (Kansas, Nebraska, Dakotas, ...

Florida is on edge as a persistent drought dries out vegetation across the state, pushing fire danger and wildfire risk to ...

Flash droughts are severe droughts that rapidly intensify over weeks rather than seasons, desiccating land and ravaging livelihoods without warning. As a result, governments need to treat them as a ...

“On a scale that ranges from zero to four (abnormally dry to exceptional drought), the drought intensity is currently at a ...

New research shows that short periods of extreme heat and drought during flowering could become one of the biggest threats to global wheat production in the coming decades. As the climate changes, ...

A new University of California San Diego study uncovers a hidden driver of global crop vulnerability: the origin of rainfall itself. Published in Nature Sustainability, the research traces atmospheric ...

A new study finds ocean cycles disrupt synchronized global drought, reducing the risk of simultaneous crop failures worldwide.