Researchers at UC Santa Cruz contributed to a new global study published in Science that reveals how severe, long-term ...

A global research effort led by Colorado State University shows that extreme, prolonged drought conditions in grasslands and ...

DOTHAN, Ala. (WTVY) - Summers are hot for most regions around the country every year, but very few summer heat waves compare to the one that happened toward the end of “The Dust Bowl” in 1936. Much of ...

Arizona’s recent haboobs are dramatic but common, driven by thunderstorm winds. Wisconsin once saw Prairie dust darken its skies during the 1930s Dust Bowl. Better farming and forecasting has lowered ...

More than 50 percent of the United States is under drought conditions right now, putting 2012 in the same category with some of the worst droughts in the nation's history. The 54.6 percent figure (not ...