In the years since, the severe drought in California has called into question how new home developers are conserving water for hundreds of planned houses at communities across the desert.

Fires ravage drought-stricken West 01:40. A relentless heat wave is piling on the difficulties faced by ranchers and farmers who've endured up to two years of drought in the Western U.S., causing ...

From record rainfall to drought: ... these latitudes form the northern boundary of the Subtropical High, ... It influences the climate of the world’s largest tropical deserts, ...

Germinating Arabidopsis (thale cress) and alfalfa with a microbe taken from the roots of a common desert plant has been shown to help them to thrive under drought conditions [1]. “Mitigating the ...

“It’s very rare to see this amount,” he says. “In the south-west desert in a long drought period, it’s a time to celebrate!” It isn’t totally clear why the snowfall happened, but it ...

Germinating Arabidopsis (thale cress) and alfalfa with a microbe taken from the roots of a common desert plant has been shown to help them to thrive under drought conditions. “Mitigating the effects ...

Drought becomes new normal in Pakistan's Thar desert Experts say climate change makes extreme weather common in Pakistan but country has no environment policy 21.07.2015 - Update : 21.07.2015 ...

Absent intervention by state wildlife officials, Nevada’s state animal, the desert bighorn sheep, may see its herds thinned by starvation because of drought. “Over the course of the last month ...

Rising annual temperatures and dwindling yearly precipitation across the mid-latitudes of Central Asia have extended its desert climate 60 miles northward since the 1980s, says a recent study.