Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

Water level charts shared online show an impressive redemption story for Lake Shasta and Lake Oroville in northern California ... lakes, one study found that sudden shifts from drought conditions ...

Some California residents are watching this precious H20 wash away and wondering, why can't we save the water for times when we desperately need it? The state grapples with drought, but it's not ...

California has been on an amazing roller coaster of drought and floods recently. The three years from 2020 to 2022 were the driest three-year period in the state’s recorded history, breaking the ...

The American West is facing its most severe drought ... power to water and irrigation districts as well as municipalities across Arizona, California, Nevada and Mexico. The elevation level also ...

In early 2023, back-to-back atmospheric rivers helped California recover from a years-long drought ... lakes reached or neared capacity in 2023 and 2024. As of Tuesday afternoon, the water level ...

California's reservoirs have seen a remarkable rise in water levels, thanks to an intense atmospheric river that swept ...

Almost all of California is finally drought-free ... On a statewide level, Hilary also didn’t have a major effect on water supplies. “This was a very fast moving storm and, really, it was ...

"It’s unfortunate that the largely natural occurrence of a drought has ... It supplies water and power to Arizona, California and Nevada. Lake Mead's level is 1,047 feet above sea level.

The drought of the last few years has left reservoirs depleted across the state, burned forests, fallowed farm fields, brown urban lawns, barren ski slopes and disappearing lakes. The crisis on ...

Most of the "extreme drought" conditions were also wiped off the map. No doubt, the heavy rain and snow have been beneficial, but state officials who manage ... to bump the water level up a ...