Except for California, most Western states are experiencing the worst snow drought in decades, not because of dry conditions ...

Adam Sherwinski teaches ciLiving host, Jaclyn Friedlander about light refraction. Watch how light bends when it passes ...

Around 1550, life on Rapa Nui began changing in ways long misunderstood. New research reveals that a severe drought, lasting more than a century, dramatically reduced rainfall on the already ...

In this week's Science Snippet, Chief Meteorologist Stefanie Lauber looks at climate patterns that suggest whether our ...

The Southern Plains states get a severe drought about once a decade, but long-lasting droughts lately have been leaving farms ...

Following winter storms that lashed California with rain and snow in recent weeks, the state is completely free of drought for the first time in 25 years, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. The ...

Alejandro N. Flores receives funding from the National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy, NASA, USDA Agricultural Research Service, and Henry's Fork Foundation. Much of the western U.S. has ...

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Inside the STEM Zone at St. Francis Catholic High School, through trial and error, iteration and adaptation – with equal parts testing, observing and problem solving – a group of students is reaching ...

A new climate record suggests that Homo floresiensis — pint-size human relatives nicknamed “hobbits” — endured thousands of years of intensifying drought before disappearing from their Indonesian ...

When extreme periods of drought persist over several years, there is a significant increase to the negative effects on plant productivity. This is the conclusion of an international study published in ...

In a recent study published in the journal Science Advances, researchers examined the influence of drought on human-wildlife conflict. Interactions between humans and wildlife have become more ...