Drought

Emerging Climate-Fueled Megadrought in Western US Rivals Any Over Past 1,200 Years: Study

A sign on a farm trailer reading "Food grows where water flows" hangs over dry, cracked mud at the edge of a farm April 16, 2009 near Buttonwillow, California. (Photo: David McNew/Getty Images)

A Call to Action as Planet's Essential Groundwater is Being Rapidly Depleted

Common Dreams staff

Changes in groundwater flows due to climate change could have a very long legacy. This could be described as an environmental time bomb

New Research Warns Severe Climate-Related Droughts Could Threaten 60% of Global Wheat Crop by 2100

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Even with ambitious global efforts to limit emissions, the study warns, "the...

'Biggest Crisis No One Is Talking About': Quarter of Humanity Faces 'Extremely High Water Stress' Intensified by Climate Emergency

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

A child sits in an area affected by a drought

"A new generation of solutions is emerging, but nowhere near fast enough."

New Study Shows Climate Crisis Could Mean 'Time Bomb" for World's Groundwater

Wilder Fires and Rising Waters, Climate Impacts Coming to America's Door

Man-Made Climate Change Making Kindling of America's Forestlands

You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet: Western States Face Decades-Long Megadroughts

Amid Climate-Fueled Food Crisis, Filipino Forces Open Fire on Starving Farmers

In Age of Extreme Weather, Industrial Farming Threatens Us All

Ahead of UN Climate Talks, Report Details World of Increasing Extremes

California Wildfires Rage in Shadow of Warming Planet

State of Emergency Declared as Wildfires Create 'Unprecedented Cataclysm' in Washington

A World on Fire: July Was Hottest Month Ever Recorded

Calif. Community's Techno-Fix to Drought: A Path Towards More Climate Problems?

Not 'If' But 'How': New Study Shows Why All Extreme Weather Is Climate Related

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The Polar Bear Is Us

The leaked news from this week's Japan gathering of climate scientists on the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is even worse than all the earlier climate change news that somehow - oh foolish arrogant species - has yet to effect the change it warrants: The dangers of a warming Earth are immediate and human, likely prompting hunger, disease, drought, flooding, refugees and war, and we are not prepared for any of it. The report uses one word over 5,000 times: risk. "It's not far-...