This month’s In Focus highlights: - El Niño Nears Its Peak - Ethiopia: Conflict and Crop Failure in the North - India’s Lopsided Monsoon

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’s sprawling cities and irrigated agriculture, along with tight market controls, have left the country vulnerable to drought. There are steps that would help.

Tehran is in the spotlight, but this is a crisis that goes well beyond the capital. Around 20 provinces haven’t seen a single drop of rain since the start of the rainy season at the end of September.

Turns out government-supported farming in arid climates uses up lots of water.

Iran faces a sixth year of drought as Tehran nears Day Zero. How mismanagement, ‘water bankruptcy’ and politics made nature a threat beyond sanctions and airstrikes.

Tehran's main water sources are in a dire situation, with two major dams reaching what officials are calling "dead capacity".

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.

Iran’s water industry officials warned on Saturday that rationing in Tehran began far too late, as the capital’s water situation deteriorates rapidly amid one of its driest periods in nearly fifty yea...

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.