The city of Alto Hospicio, in Chile’s Atacama Desert, is one of the driest places on Earth. And yet its population of 140,000 ...

The extra amount may help serve as drought insurance for years ahead, water managers say. The state Department of Water Resources announced on Tuesday, Jan. 28 it has raised the allotment of ...

“The bottom line is our mountains have been experiencing two kinds of ‘snow drought’ so far this winter,” the report says. One of those is a “dry snow drought” after conditions have ...

Image by Valerie Abbott, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons. The New Guinea Singing Dog originates from the remote mountains of Papua New Guinea. Because they are isolated from human influence, they ...

Liquid-equivalent precipitation in December measured 0.77 inches at Iron Mountain-Kingsford, which was 0.4 inches below normal. Currently, there is moderate drought across most of northern ...

Some cities could set record high temps this week. Thirteen counties are experiencing an increased fire danger due to drought. It may be only February, but "record high temperatures are expected ...

The inquiry has heard the councils want urgent financial support to remediate their infrastructure before the next drought. Regional New South Wales councils grappling with PFAS contamination in ...

FIGURE 1. Location of the study area and the debris flow catchments. The Gaizi River valley transects the west Kunlun Mountains. The valley has an average elevation of about 2,500 m and a width of ...

The town has been hit by a recent drought. The dry weather has forced grains exchanges in Argentina, the world's top exporter of soy oil and meal and the No. 3 for corn, to cut their forecasts for ...

A mountain in New Zealand considered an ancestor by Indigenous people was recognized as a legal person on Thursday after a new law granted it all the rights and responsibilities of a human being.

File Photo/AP A mountain in New Zealand will have the same legal rights as a person. Mount Taranaki, now known by its Māori name — Taranaki Maunga, was recognised as a legal person on Thursday ...