The year 2024 was marked by record heat and major disruptions in the global hydrological cycle. These changes, amplified by global warming, have led to devastating floods and prolonged droughts ...

According to the U.S. National Integrated Drought Information System, 20% of the annual economic losses from extreme weather events in the U.S. are from floods and droughts.

Floods and droughts have regularly made the news in 2021. And the scale of the crisis behind the headlines is stark. Over the last two decades, floods and droughts – two of the most devastating ...

The year 2022 will be remembered across the U.S. for its devastating flooding and storms – and also for its extreme heat waves and droughts. The nation saw 18 disasters that caused more than US ...

Eleven inches of rain chucked down on Beijing on July 21, 2012, flooding roads and filling underpasses. Landscape architect Yu Kongjian barely made it home from work. “I was lucky,” he says ...

These extremes highlight an uncomfortable truth: managing droughts and floods are two sides of the same coin. Both crises, while opposite in their nature, are intensified by climate change, extreme ...

A recent study by researchers from the University of Texas at Austin found that coastal aquifers from which water has been pumped for use in farms and cities, have enough space to store two-thirds of ...

Colorado joined a lawsuit with 19 other states to force the administration to restore a program started under the first Trump ...

Climate-driven drought and floods are hurting the livelihoods and mental health of European farmers. European farming has been hit by an increase in flooding, drought, and heatwaves in recent years.

While the headlines quickly moved on, the effects of the floods continue to plague many communities. Even when floods are not deadly, they seriously disrupt our homes and businesses, consume our ...