A professor analyzes the conflicting impacts of human activities on extreme spring droughts. Earth and environmental scientists reported that as human socio-economic activities increase, greenhouse ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A worker moves irrigation tubes on a farm in Pinal County, Ariz. A two-decade drought has made water supplies harder to secure.

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Colorado’s black bears are beginning to stir with the first signs of spring. While the spring wake-up for bears comes right ...

A new NASA study shows that over the last 20 years, the atmosphere above the Amazon rainforest has been drying out, increasing the demand for water and leaving ecosystems vulnerable to fires and ...

A new wave of climate research is sounding a stark warning: Human activity may be driving drought more intensely — and more directly — than previously understood. When you purchase through links on ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Pedro DiNezio, University of Colorado Boulder and Timothy Shanahan, The University of ...