This month’s In Focus highlights: - El Niño strengthening toward historic levels; - The Colorado River Basin at a breaking point; and, - Agricultural concerns in Europe and Central America.

This month’s In Focus highlights an exceptional El Niño, flash floods in Texas, and Europe’s energy emergency.

This month’s WSIM In Focus highlights: El Niño; drought and heat throughout Europe; and future flooding in Central Asia and the Middle East.

This month’s WSIM In Focus highlights two emerging stories–an increasing water emergency in the American West, and divergent impacts across sub-Saharan Africa where ENSO is suppressing the rainy sea...

NOAA recently announced the possibility of an e merging Super El Niño during the 2026 summer and fall seasons. It has the potential to be one of the strongest on record; equatorial Pacific sea surfa...

Deficits are forecast for the United States, Canada, Brazil, Europe, northern Africa, northwestern China, and Indonesia. Surpluses are forecast for southern Europe, Turkey, southern Africa, and north...

Deficits are forecast for the Lower Mississippi Basin, central Brazil, northern Africa, northern Russia, and western China. Supluses are focecast for the Iberian Peninsula, Greece, southern Africa, a...

Deficits are forecast for Canada, southeast United States, Brazil, northern Africa, Central Asia, and northwestern China. Surpluses are forecast for the western Amazon, portions of southern Europe, t...

Water withdrawals from the Kadıköy Dam, which supplies drinking water to Keşan, the largest district of Edirne in northwestern Türkiye, have been...

Exceptional deficits are forecast for Canada, southern Brazil, northern Africa, and Central Asia. Exceptional surpluses are forecast for Mozambique and northern Australia.

Exceptional deficits are forecast for Canada, the Middle East, Central Asia, and northern China. Surpluses are forecast for Colombia, Peru, the Sahel, central India, and southern China.

Iran is suffering huge water shortages. Expert believe there are changes that could help.

Citizens in the Indian capital of New Delhi say that the government’s inaction against the pollution-driven public health crisis signals both a struggling democracy and hypocrisy, as India leads talks...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

Exceptional deficits are forecast for Canada, northeast United States, Central Asia, and the Middle East . Exceptional surpluses are forecast for India, portions of China, and the Philippines.

Researchers in California have pinpointed an unexpected impact of frequent droughts: an increase in human-wildlife conflict.

Nearly 50% of Floridians have considered leaving the state because of the high cost of living. For 26%, it is a serious option.

Alarmed about a severe and protracted drought, state and Maui County water officials are reporting historic low flows in East Maui streams and weighing their options to maintain wa...

Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drin...

The authors of this study perform simulations with a high-resolution climate model and show that global warming may trigger an abrupt shift in the tropical climate system towards stronger and more pre...

A global research effort led by Colorado State University shows that extreme, prolonged drought conditions in grasslands and shrublands would greatly limit the long-term health of crucial ecosystems t...

Exceptional deficits are forecast for Canada, northeast United States, southeast Europe, northwest Africa, Turkey, and northern Russia. Exceptional surpluses are forecast for west Africa, India, and...

Regional exceptions like the 1930s in the continental US notwithstanding

About 170 American hospitals, totaling nearly 30,000 patient beds from coast to coast, face the greatest risk of significant or dangerous flooding, according to a months-long KFF Health News investiga...

A Rose Park family had to watch helplessly from a doorbell camera while their neighbors tried to salvage some of their most treasured possessions after major weekend flooding.

New Hampshire is sinking deeper into drought as fall sets in, despite the few inches of much needed rain that fell across much of the state in late September.

Ethiopia wants to reduce heavy reliance on hydropower to diversify to solar and wind in the face of climate-induced droughts

For a group of people whose job means life, climate change can spell death.

The last time it was this dry was 1887, according to weather service records.

Local farmers and growers say the current drought in the Big Bend and South Georgia is hurting their crop and pushing prices up for customers.

October typically starts the rainy season in western Washington, but we will be hard-pressed to find any rain soon.

State leaders request federal assistance to help Vermont farmers struggling with crop failures and financial losses

It’s Back!!! The "blob" has returned. This "blob" is the marine heatwave that now spans much of the Northeast Pacific Ocean.

The Mississippi River Basin is facing an emerging crisis as rapidly declining water levels threaten to restrict barge traffic during the peak harvest season, potentially disrupting critical agricultur...

The collapse of water security in Iran has been decades in the making and is rooted in a mania for mega projects.

Planning for the Colorado River is critical to secure water and hydropower for the western US under climate change. This study highlights how different policies may reduce but not eliminate the risk of losing water and energy supply altogether.

As the frequency and intensity of heat waves increase across the U.S., a similar but more striking phenomenon is occurring in American rivers.

The newly discovered tombs are believed to date back to the Hellenistic or Hellenistic-Seleucid period.

As the drought intensifies, depleting water levels are forcing towns to conserve water, harming aquatic ecosystems and impacting recreational activities.

One year after Tropical Storm Helene left Asheville without potable water for nearly two months, the city’s water system remains defenseless against the disruptive powers of a much lesser storm. Since...

Louisiana is the state projected to have the most land impacted by coastal flooding caused by rising sea levels and severe storms in the United States.

Planting fall crops has become difficult at Indigo Farms due to a lack of rain, potentially delaying farm-fresh produce for local families.