Revived lakes allowed diverse ecosystems to thrive again. Levels in key lakes see stunning rise amid heavy rainfall — here's ...

Now, two of California's "zombie lakes" have come back to life with their impressive water levels, according to a report by climate website The Cool Down.

The deluge of rain currently hitting Central and Northern California may be helping to return the water levels of many crucial reservoirs to normal. Drought parched much of the Western U.S. this ...

In early 2023, back-to-back atmospheric rivers helped California recover from a years-long drought. The storms supplemented Lake Oroville and Lake Shasta, and both lakes reached or neared capacity ...

How California’s weather catastrophe turned into a miracle Gushing waterfalls, swollen lakes and snow-covered mountaintops transformed the state’s arid landscapes.

California’s 2020-23 drought The state's drought began in early 2020, peaked in the summer of 2021 and ended in April after drenching storms. Slide the bar at the bottom to see how it played out.

The very dry September combined with the typical seasonal decline in water levels are bringing Great Lakes' water levels down to lowest level in several years. In September the precipitation was ...

A 22-year mega-drought has caused elevation to drop along the Colorado River, which supplies water to 40 million people in the U.S. and Mexico.

A year of substantial rainfall has brought needed water to California. But the region's long-term problems remain.

Lake Powell is the nation's second-largest reservoir. Water is dangerously close to dropping so low that it can't flow out of the reservoir.

Despite record-setting rainfall that helped pull the last major section of California out of a three-year drought, water officials say Tropical Storm Hilary didn't have a major effect on the state ...

Recent storms in California have replenished reservoirs, but scientists caution people to not let images of seemingly abundant water levels fool them.