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 ...

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 ...

The word "megadrought" isn't new in the science community. It's been in use since the early 1990s. But new findings from research conducted at UCLA have the word making headlines in the Western U.S.

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. The American West's megadrought deepened so much last year that it is now the driest it has been in at least 1,200 years, a new ...

Despite several snow-heavy winters in California, the snowpack in the Sierra Nevadas has not managed to cure the state of its dry soils. NASA satellite data has revealed that the recent major snowfall ...

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