For the past 30 years, the PDO has been in its negative phase, which leads to drought in the Southwest by reducing winter ...

The Southwest United States is currently facing its worst megadrought of the past 1,200 years. According to a recent study by ...

Drought conditions persisted in the Southwest, where water is desperately needed to replenish the country's largest reservoirs relied on by tens of millions of people.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is developing a framework for assessing drought in a changing ...

A megadrought has sapped water supplies, ravaged farms and ranches, and fueled wildfires across the American Southwest for ...

"Water managers need to start planning for the possibility that this drought isn't just a rough patch—it could be the new reality," said Timothy Shanahan.

NOAA published a report this week on the Southwest’s historic drought, addressing a key question of when it might end. The answer, according to the report, is that the current drought could last ...

The long-running drought in the Southwest, which has persisted since 2000, can now be considered the driest 22-year period of the past 1,200 years, according to a study published Monday in the ...

Fourth year in a row of drought is likely in Southwest after worst 3 on record By Rachel Ramirez and Stephanie Elam , CNN 5 min read ...

In the late 2010s, when Assistant Professor Flavio Lehner worked for the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, ...