Extreme Weather Threatens Global Wheat Crops – With One Notable Exception May 12, 2022 By Megan Durisin, Kim Chipman, Jen Skerritt and James Poole As Russia’s invasion chokes off Ukrainian wheat exports, pushing up bread and noodle prices, the global harvest faces an added...
Drought in Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas Opens Loans for Farmers May 9, 2022 The U.S. Department of Agriculture says drought during the growing season has made farmers in most of Texas, all of...
New Mexico Residents Brace for Extreme Wildfire Conditions May 9, 2022 By Cedar Attanasio and Brian Melley With the worst of the thick wildfire smoke having blown out of town, residents of this small northern New Mexico...
Financial Services Firms Face Losses of $225B From Variety of Water Risks: Report May 5, 2022 By Simon Jessop and Tommy Wilkes Financial institutions face losses of at least $225 billion from risks related to water, with a third of them doing...
Report Forecasts ‘Above-Normal’ U.S. Wildfire Season, Worse in Drought-Plagued West May 4, 2022 By Don Jergler The U.S. has in store an “above-normal” wildfire season if a prediction out on Wednesday from fire weather experts holds...
Southwest Colorado Farmers Plagued by Drought April 11, 2022 By Chris Outcalt With his hands stuffed deep into his pockets, Landan Wilson looks down at the ground and scuffs his boot back...
California Drought Deepening as Wet Season is Anything But April 4, 2022 By Kathleen Ronayne California is experiencing one of the driest starts to spring in decades, data showed Friday, and absent a heavy dose...
Climate Change Could Cost U.S. Budget $2 Trillion a Year by End Century April 4, 2022 By Timothy Gardner Flood, fire, and drought fueled by climate change could take a massive bite out of the U.S. federal budget per...
5th Oregon County Declares Drought Emergency March 30, 2022 Low water storage and snowpack levels in southern Oregon have prompted a fifth Oregon county to declare a drought emergency....
California Imposes New Round of Water Cuts to Deal with Severe Drought March 21, 2022 By Kathleen Ronayne California’s urban water users and farmers who rely on supplies from state reservoirs will get less than planned this year...