Droughts
As the American West suffers through a megadrought, we should expect to find more human remains on lake bottoms.
“It’s a good chunk of potatoes."
With countries around the world continually beating their own records for both heat and rainfall year on year, extreme weather is becoming more common. Now, as the planet heats up, natural disasters are on the rise. We have seen events from wildfires to hurricanes increasing in frequency and intensity, but how exactly can our changing climate have an effect on natural disasters?
A critical Colorado River reservoir has fallen to a record low level, raising new concerns about a power source for millions of people in the U.S. West.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Our worst-case climate change scenario is playing out live, a new study finds.
Yes, that's a first for the Colorado capital since record-keeping began.
Climate change is “first and foremost a health crisis,” the medical journal The Lancet warned.
Climate change continues to wreak havoc across the American West.
Farmers in Arizona and Nevada, along with two Mexican states, will face cutbacks next year in a grim sign of what’s to come as the climate warms.
Satellite images show sparse snow and bare ground on some peaks of the South American mountain range.