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Water/Drought

Grapevines at Castello di Amorosa, in the Napa Valley Wine Country, Calistoga, California, December 22, 2019.

Clues From Wines Grown in Hot, Dry Regions May Help Growers Adapt to a Changing Climate

By Liza Gross

Waste grain is left in harvested fields on Staten Island in the California Delta as forage for greater sandhill cranes, a state listed endangered species. Credit: Liza Gross

California Farmers Work to Create a Climate Change Buffer for Migratory Water Birds

By Liza Gross

A view of Lombok Island, Indonesia, with Mount Rinjani or Gunung Rinjani which is an active volcano.

Planning for a Climate Crisis Helped a Small Indonesian Island Battle Covid-19

By Bob Berwyn

If Aridification Choked the Southwest for Thousands of Years, What Does The Future Hold?

By Judy Fahys

The San Luis Reservoir receives water from the San Joaquin-Sacramento River Delta. The water is pumped uphill into the reservoir and released to continue downstream along the California Aqueduct for farm irrigation and other uses. Credit: Melanie Stetson

Sparring Over a ‘Tiny Little Fish,’ a Legendary Biologist Calls President Trump ‘an Ignorant Bully’

By Evelyn Nieves

A rancher walks on the cracked remains of a parched lake bed on a ranch along San Simeon Creek in the Santa Lucia Mountain foothills of Cambria that are brown from drought on Oct. 1, 2014. Credit: Al Seib/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Droughts That Start Over the Ocean? They’re Often Worse Than Those That Form Over Land

By Bob Berwyn

Grapes growing in vineyard near Delano in Kern County, California. Credit: Citizens of the Planet/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

In a Dry State, Farmers Use Oil Wastewater to Irrigate Their Fields, but is it Safe?

By Abby Weiss

Mediterranean Sea. Credit: Valery Hache/AFP via Getty Images

Changing Patterns of Ocean Salt Levels Give Scientists Clues to Extreme Weather on Land

By Bob Berwyn

Scum floats on the surface of Western Lake Erie on Sept. 20, 2017. Credit: NOAA

Lake Erie’s Toxic Green Slime is Getting Worse With Climate Change

By Nicole Pollack

Clay Nelson is using a floodlight to find stunned fish and retrieve them at a sampling site on the main Colorado downstream from the Little Colorado River. Scientific findings are being used to help guide Colorado River operations. Credit: Judy Fahys

Humpback Chub 'Alien Abductions' Help Frame the Future of the Colorado River

By Judy Fahys

Farm fields in southwestern Utah were dry in the weeks leading up to a statewide drought declaration in 2018. Credit: Judy Fahys/InsideClimate News

Drought Fears Take Hold in a Four Corners Region Already Beset by the Coronavirus Pandemic

By Judy Fahys

The Colorado River, the source of the Grand Valley’s irrigation water, flows through Debeque Canyon. Credit: Luke Runyon/KUNC

Western Colorado Water Purchases Stir Up Worries About The Future Of Farming

By HEATHER SACKETT, ASPEN JOURNALISM AND LUKE RUNYON, KUNC

A sign referencing the drought is posted next to a fallow field on April 24, 2015 in Lemoore, California. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

The Parched West is Heading Into a Global Warming-Fueled Megadrought That Could Last for Centuries

By Bob Berwyn

In 2018, snowpack in the Rocky Mountains was much lower than usual. Credit: Joshua Stevens/NASA Earth Observatory

New Study Projects Severe Water Shortages in the Colorado River Basin

By Bob Berwyn

Homes along a sand spit of land on Litchfield Beach, South Carolina. Credit: Jason Lee, McClatchy newspapers

South Carolina Has No Overall Plan to Fight Climate Change

By Sammy Fretwell, The State

After Deadly Floods, West Virginia Created a Resiliency Office. It’s Barely Functioning.

By Brittany Patterson, Ohio Valley ReSource and West Virginia Public Broadcasting

Midwest flooding in the spring of 2019 in Craig, Missouri. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

As Climate Change Threatens Midwest's Cultural Identity, Cities Test Ways to Adapt

By Dan Gearino

Farms in Colorado's North Fork Valley rely on snowmelt. Credit: Jutta Strohmaier

In the Mountains, Climate Change Is Disrupting Everything

By Bob Berwyn

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