A megadrought has sapped water supplies, ravaged farms and ranches, and fueled wildfires across the American Southwest for going on 25 years. Not in 12 centuries has the region been so dry for so long ...

LINCOLN, Neb. - The western U.S. continues to endure dry conditions, and now scientists are using the term "megadrought" to describe the problem — which has existed for decades — with no end in sight.

The word "megadrought" isn't new in the science community. It's been in use since the early 1990s. But new findings from research conducted at UCLA have the word making headlines in the Western U.S.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new modeling study of the Southern Andes shows that if a megadrought like Chile’s current one strikes again near the end of this ...

The current Western megadrought is unlike any other dry period the region has experienced over the past 500 years. That’s according to a new study in which scientists looked at tree rings to track ...

As historic drought conditions on the Western Slope fuel another dangerous wildfire season, a new paper from researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder warns that human-caused climate change is ...

The American West’s megadrought deepened so much last year that it is now the driest in at least 1,200 years and is a worst-case climate change scenario playing out live, a new study finds. A dramatic ...

More than 1.1 million acres have already burned in the western half of the United States this year. And after record wildfires across the West last year, officials predict those fires will ...

A climate changed world is too hot, too wet, too on fire — and increasingly, too dry. Though rainfall events are getting stronger, that doesn’t mean the water always falls where it needs to, and a new ...

DENVERDENVER — Last year’s snow deluge in California, which quickly erased a two decade long megadrought, was essentially a once-in-a-lifetime rescue from above, a new study found. Don’t get used to ...

The high mountains of central Chile look solid and eternal, but their ice is in trouble. For fifteen years, the country has endured a stubborn megadrought, and glaciers have quietly carried much of ...