Climate Change Droughts

Is Your City Preparing for the Impacts of Climate Change on Its Water Resources?

Steve Fleischli | Posted 09.25.2011

Steve Fleischli

No matter where they are located, communities nationwide need to prepare for climate change and the impacts it will have on local water resources -- from area waterways to drinking water supplies.

Extreme Weather Makeover: The Dam Effect

Lori Pottinger | Posted 08.08.2011

Lori Pottinger

Big dams are, in effect, experimental technology. Those who design, build and operate them can't predict with any certainty the many serious impacts they will have on life-giving river systems.

Monster Floods And Killing Droughts Are 'New Normal' In U.S. Weather

Posted 07.19.2011

WASHINGTON (By Deborah Zabarenko) - Heavy rains, deep snowfalls, monster floods and killing droughts are signs of a "new normal" of extreme U.S. weat...

Ancient Megadroughts Offer Glimpse Of Future

Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON (Reuters/Deborah Zabarenko) - Ancient megadroughts that lasted thousands of years in what is now the American Southwest could offer a pre...

Report: India's Fast-Rising Temperature May Bring Increased Floods, Droughts And Disease

AP | KATY DAIGLE | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW DELHI — A new report says India could be 2 degrees Celsius (3.8 F) warmer than 1970s levels within 20 years – a change that would disr...