Drought

Even if those differences average out nationally—possibly even globally, when you balance Southern Hemisphere production against the US and Western Europe,…

“You could actually exacerbate the drought situation,” says Gabriel Collins at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy in Texas, arguing that…

Thames Water has confirmed that it wants to work collaboratively with datacentre operators with sites within its jurisdiction to explore the…

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The new foreboding name for summer was coined by Erika Spanger-Siegfried, an analyst at the Union of Concerned Scientists. The organization introduced the…

Drought is forecast to slash California’s supply of hydroelectricity in half this summer. That’s bad news for residents’ air quality and utility bills,…

Flash droughts are also a global problem, with Brazil, India, and multiple countries in Africa facing the worst impacts. In 2010, a flash drought followed by…

These were days, months and years that many will come to remember: the drought from 2018 to 2020. An international team of researchers led by scientists…

News that Lake Powell, a reservoir on the border of Arizona and Utah, is slowly but surely drying up has spread far and wide. Behind the 1,320-megawatt Glen…

For a long time, ecologists assumed tree rings to be absent in tropical trees because of a lack of temperature and rain fluctuations in the trees'…