The United States has been like a patch of drought in an otherwise waterlogged world over the past several months. And it may take flooding rainfall to reverse the long-standing dryness.

Thursday the latest Drought Monitor was released and it confirmed what many of us already know — the drought is getting worse. For the last two weeks, the entire region was classified as ...

Winter has come and gone, but unusually dry conditions that developed last fall are still plaguing much of the United States. As of early April, around 60 percent of the contiguous states is ...

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Drought is now so bad in parts of southern Africa that governments say they must kill hundreds of their most captivating, majestic wild animals to feed desperately hungry people. In August ...

Mayor Eric Adams declared a drought warning Monday — and halted a major aqueduct repair project to preserve the city’s waters supply — as New York City faces the threat of severe water ...

The recent wet weather has not been nearly enough for parts of Massachusetts and New Hampshire still struggling with drought after seven long months. And as we head into April and warmer May ...

Correction: A previous version of this story misstated how many acres of major crops are affected by drought conditions. It is over 318 million acres. New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Monday ...

Statewide, 4.4 million of the state’s 13 million residents are living in areas affected by drought, down slightly from the previous week, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

The latest drought status map for New Jersey looks even worse than it had looked during recent weeks, with three counties now experiencing a rare “extreme” drought and most other counties in a ...

Florida continues with a worsening drought. There is an extreme drought now affecting parts of South Florida, and a severe drought that has expanded across much of the state as well. Drought monitor.