Already in 2019 the amount of groundwater in Central Europe was very low. Credit; Kvas – TU Graz Europe lacks groundwater – a lot of…
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Drought and water shortages in 2022 have meant rice growers have only planted half as much of the grain as usual in the Sacramento Valley,…
China’s largest freshwater lake drained by prolonged heat and drought. Between the winter and summer seasons, Poyang Lake, in China’s Jiangxi Province, routinely fluctuates in…
Lake Powell on August 6, 2022, compared with August 16, 2017. The second largest reservoir in the United States now stands at its lowest level…
Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite images show the stark difference between August 2021 and August 2022 on the Rhine River near Cologne. Water levels on the Rhine…
As a megadrought persists across the US southwest, Utah’s Great Salt Lake dropped to its lowest recorded water level. Utah’s Great Salt Lake dropped to…
This Copernicus Sentinel-2 animation shows a part of the Po Valley, near Piacenza, and reveals how the river has significantly shrunk between June 2020 and…
This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image allows us a wider view of Lake Powell and its dwindling water levels amidst the climate crisis. After decades of drought,…
Groundwater irrigation enables farmers to grow lush crops in California’s Central Valley, but the underground water resource is dwindling. A NASA study offers a new…
The researchers conducting their field experiment. Credit: Dr. Amelia Henry, International Rice Research Institute, Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines Study links gene expression patterns to traits…
October 1 – 12, 2021 Warm and dry conditions continue to affect agricultural lands in the U.S. Northern Plains and the Canadian Prairies. Decades of drought…
August 27, 2021 September 1, 2017 Water levels at Glen Canyon Dam have fallen to their lowest level since 1969 and are still dropping. As…
Canyon Ferry Reservoir, part of the Upper Missouri River Basin. Credit: Bureau of Reclamation The Bureau of Reclamation released the Missouri River Headwaters Basin Study…
Oak tree rooting into bedrock at the Jackson School’s White Family Outdoor Learning Center. Credit: Erica McCormick You can’t squeeze water from a rock. But…
August 7, 2000 August 9, 2021 The reservoir stands at its lowest level since the 1930s. Lake Mead is the largest reservoir in the United…
August 19, 2021 Several destructive fires have charred landscapes in northern California, and their emissions are adding up. The worst of California’s fire season typically…
In Yosemite’s Illilouette Creek basin, a stand of young Sierra lodgepole pine grow in a forest clearing that was created by wildfire 20 years prior.…
A forest fire during the 2015 El Niño. Credit: Erika Berenguer A major drought and forest fires in the Amazon rainforest killed billions of trees…
June 16, 2021 Precipitation totals and lake levels are among the worst they have been since the 1970s. Just four years after emerging from a…
Rainclouds moving over the Amazon rainforest. Credit: Jessica Baker Amazon rain forests could be at far higher risk of extreme drought than previously thought, according…