A key question in any discussion about climate is "How much rain fell?" But perhaps there is an even more important one. Like any household budget, the global water economy is based on "income," that ...

Whatcom and more than 10 other Western Washington counties remain in a drought emergency because of record-low snowfall across the Cascades, the state Department of Ecology said Friday. “The drought ...

Two new studies out of the University of BC are highlighting the importance of forests in flood and drought prevention.

Chennai cannot avoid floods and droughts, says Balaji Narasimhan, professor with the department of civil engineering at IIT-M, who works with the govt to design low-impact development (LID) measures ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — As the last river finally falls below major flood stage near the coast, a rapidly worsening drought is killing crops and causing hard-to-fight wildfires in rugged terrain in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After much of Washington state saw historic flooding near the end of 2025, weather observers may be wondering how that affected ...

The grasses and wild flowers on the future site of Piers Park Phase II on the East Boston waterfront turn brown due to the drought, Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022, in Boston. Credit: Michael Dwyer / AP Sign ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Parts of northern Texas, mired in a drought ...

Farmers still aren't clear how one of the wettest growing seasons in Ohio's history will affect this year's harvest. And meteorologists don't know yet how rainy the weather will be from now until ...

In the summer of 2022, extreme heat and unprecedented drought drove parts of the world’s third-largest river, the Yangtze, to dry up.