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| Sep 4, 2026 | Boaters: Heed Low Water Levels This Fall | MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources encourages boaters to take extra care at public water access sites throughout the state, where ongoing drought conditions continue to cause low water levels. Much of the state is... |
| Aug 31, 2026 | Heat Records Broken, Rain Never Came: Las Vegas’s 2026 Monsoon Season Has Failed | By Earl Bensen
Published: Aug 31 2026, 5:00 AM EDT
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| Aug 28, 2026 | Ross Fire Burns 85,000 Acres: Flash Drought Whiplash Fuels North Texas Record | By Connor Swanton
Published: Aug 28 2026, 10:20 AM EDT
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| Aug 12, 2026 | Scientists Name Snow-Eater Heat Waves, Confirm Doubled Snowmelt Across American West | By Caleb Pittmann
Published: Aug 12 2026, 4:25 PM EDT
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| Aug 11, 2026 | County to Host Free Home and Yard Conservation Workshop | The Alachua County Environmental Protection Department invites residents to attend a free workshop focused on saving money, conserving natural resources and improving their homes and landscapes on Saturday, Aug. 29, 2026.
The workshop is fr... |
| Aug 4, 2026 | Clover Lawns Cut Water Bills by Half While Denver Fines Homeowners for Watering Grass | By Clark Johnson
Published: Aug 04 2026, 7:09 AM EDT
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| Jul 29, 2026 | Wildfire Smoke Chokes Idaho as 300,000-Acre Big Grass Fire Threatens Worse This Weekend | By Clark Johnson
Published: Jul 29 2026, 2:06 PM EDT
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| May 27, 2026 | Citrus County Rescinds Burn Ban Following Improved Conditions | CITRUS COUNTY RESCINDS BURN BAN FOLLOWING IMPROVED CONDITIONS
Residents Urged to Continue Using Caution with Outdoor Burning
CITRUS COUNTY, Fla. (May 26, 2026) – The Citrus County Board of County Commissioners has rescinded the burn ban for... |
| Apr 12, 2026 | Winter’s alarmingly low snowpack offers a glimpse of the changing rhythm of water in the western US (Opinion) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Imtiaz Rangwala
Winter is more than just a season in the western U.S. – it is a savings account to get farms and homes through the long, dry summer ahead. As the snowpack that accumulates in the... |
| Mar 6, 2026 | Boulder County’s historically low February snow matches some of warmest winter months on record | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Winter in Boulder County looked and felt a lot like, well, any season that isn’t winter — with Friday’s storm providing stark contrast to what had come before.
Temperatures regularly spiked into th... |
| Mar 1, 2026 | Bluebell fire burning near Chautauqua Park in Boulder fully contained | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Updated at 9:30 a.m. Sunday: The wildfire burning near Boulder was fully contained Saturday night, fire officials said.
Fire crews stayed on scene overnight to monitor the burn area and extinguish ... |
| Aug 30, 2025 | Chance of Colorado River deal is ‘tenuous’ just two months before federal deadline, negotiator says | Buschatzke’s candid comments are rare for negotiators involved in the closed-door discussions, though tensions have occasionally flared into the public eye. Colorado’s negotiator, Becky Mitchell, said in a statement this week in response to... |
| Aug 22, 2025 | Inside Texas Instruments’ $60 billion U.S. megaproject, where Apple will make iPhone chips | When Texas Instruments announced a $60 billion manufacturing megaproject in July, it was a bold bet that companies would want to mass produce foundational microchips on U.S. soil. In August, Apple vowed to do just that.
During the same Oval... |
| Jul 22, 2025 | Feeding 100,000 cows with fodder could save 200 Billion gallons—equal to the annual water use of 1 million U.S. homes. | Lake Mead’s water levels have dropped drastically from near full in the 1980s to around 30% capacity in recent years, highlighting the ongoing water crisis in the U.S. Southwest.
The U.S. Drought Monitor shows widespread drought conditions ... |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Fast-moving brush fire on Hawaii’s Maui Island evacuates about 50 people. No structures have burned | No injuries or structural damage was reported. Weather conditions were mostly sunny Monday with a high of 67 degrees Fahrenheit and east winds of about 15 mph, gusting up to about 25 mph.
The U.S. Drought Monitor says all of Maui is in drou... |
| Mar 25, 2025 | Wildfires in North and South Carolina fueled by drought, wind and fallen trees from Hurricane Helene | In this March 23, 2025, photo released by the U.S. National Guard shows a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter from the 1-111th General Support Aviation Battalion, 59th Aviation Troop Command, McEntire Joint National Guard Base in Eastover executing... |
| Feb 12, 2025 | Colorado's Drought Dilemma: A Tipping Point for Water and Wages | Colorado is at a crossroads. The state faces a dual crisis: a dwindling snowpack and a struggling restaurant industry. Both issues stem from larger forces—climate change and economic pressures. As the snow melts, so do the hopes of many. Sn... |
| Feb 11, 2025 | Colorado snowpack, after a dry January, is near normal in north — and dismal in some places | “We currently have been degrading across the mountain west in terms of drought,” said Gretel Follingstad, the regional drought information coordinator for the Intermountain West region of the National Integrated Drought Information System.V... |
| Jun 28, 2024 | The Increasing Impact of Extreme Weather Events on Grocery Prices: A Closer Look at the Rising Cost of Climate Change | The correlation between isolated climate shocks and supply chain disruptions leading to higher food costs is becoming more pronounced in today's world. Economists and scientists are delving deeper into the role that individual extreme weath... |
| Jun 28, 2024 | How Bad Weather Forecasts Can Make Your Groceries More Expensive | 7 Mins Read Economists are seeing a growing link between isolated climate shocks and supply chain disruptions that lead to higher food costs.
By Ayurella Horn-Muller
It’s no secret that a warming world will drive food prices higher, a pheno... |
| Jun 12, 2024 | Nearly 4 inches of rain fell in an hour in Sarasota – and the 1 in 1,000-year record event could happen again | South Florida Weather for Wednesday 6/12/2024 7AM
South Florida Weather for Wednesday 6/12/2024 7AM 00:36
The Sunshine State is no stranger to rainstorms, but one city there saw a record-breaking deluge Tuesday night. Sarasota, Florida, rec... |
| May 6, 2024 | Hotter, drier summer looms for most of Oregon | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
It's shaping up to be a hotter-than-usual summer for the majority of Oregon, according to new forecasts and research.
Why it matters: Nearly 70% of Portlanders live on heat islands — parts of the city... |
| Apr 11, 2024 | Hawaii is "on the verge of catastrophe," locals say, as water crisis continues | In Hawaii, one of the most important sayings is ola i ka wai, "water is life" — a phrase that not only sums up what it means to exist on an island, but what it means to live, period. But now, one of the largest of the island chain... |
| Apr 4, 2024 | Colorado snowpack, nearing peak after huge storms, is now a bright spot: “We’re in a good position” | It was an average year for Colorado’s snowpack — and that’s great news.
The statewide snowpack sat at 109% of the 30-year median on Wednesday, just a few days shy of the normal peak of snowpack for the state. Every major river basin in the ... |
| Mar 26, 2024 | Vibrant Planet uses AI for land mapping and improving climate resiliency | As the planet warms due to human-caused climate change, damage from wildfires has increased with it. The amount of forest area burned by wildfires increased 320% from 1996 to 2021, according to the National Integrated Drought Information Sy... |
| Mar 5, 2024 | Solar Technology Offers Lifeline to Farmers Amid Drought Despair | Callie Patteson, Tech Times 05 March 2024, 01:03 pm
(Photo : (Photo by Ian Waldie/Getty Images))
From Michigan to Texas to Iowa and North Dakota, nearly two dozen states are experiencing severe to exceptional drought as concerns about the c... |
| Jun 23, 2023 | OSA Weekly Update - 6/23/2023 | 1. Message from Auditor Blaha
2. Avoiding Pitfall: Contracts and Conflicts of Interest
3. Upcoming Deadlines
1. Message from Auditor Blaha
Is your park looking brown? Are you worried about local fields? Can you tell the difference between b... |
| May 28, 2023 | Commentary
Commentary | Guest opinion: Jeff Basara and Jordan Christian: Farmers face a soaring risk of flash droughts in every major food-growing region in coming decades | By Jeff Basara and Jordan Christian
Flash droughts develop fast, and when they hit at the wrong time, they can devastate a region’s agriculture.
They’re also becoming increasingly common as the planet warms.
In a new study published May 25,... |
| Mar 19, 2023 | Commentary
Commentary | Guest opinion: Dan McEvoy: Is the Western drought finally ending? That depends on where you look. | By Dan McEvoy
After three years of extreme drought, the Western U.S. is finally getting a break. Mountain ranges are covered in deep snow, and water reservoirs in many areas are filling up following a series of atmospheric rivers that broug... |
| Jan 5, 2023 | Dear California: Despite rains, we’re not out of a drought yet. We must act accordingly | Himanshu Gupta is the co-founder and CEO of ClimateAi, a supply chain resilience company that was recognized in 2022 by TIME Magazine as one of the greatest innovations of the year. He has worked in the climate space for over 15 years, incl... |
| Nov 7, 2022 | The Mississippi River is Drying up, and That Should Concern Us All | I love rivers. I grew up in Louisiana on the Mississippi River. Our cotton fields bordered the levee. When I was working in those fields I would always eat my lunch on the levee so I could watch the massive river rolling by peacefully.
This... |
| Aug 23, 2022 | Why Does Sunshine In France Matter To Farmers In Iowa? | Nearly 42 percent of the country is in a continued drought this week, with several states considered ... [+] in extreme drought. Farmers and ranchers are now forced to take drastic steps as a result of the conditions. Getty Images |
| Jul 13, 2022 | Most of Cattaraugus County, WNY abnormally dry | Abnormally dry conditions across more than half of Cattaraugus County have already impacted some farmers’ hay crops.
If the trend continues and soils remain dry, other crops — corn and soybeans — could be stunted, the Farm Bureau reported. ... |
| Jun 30, 2022 | The Road Map To Investing In Farmland | Jim is the Co-Founder and CEO of Agrograph, Inc. He's led in multinational corporations in finance, insurance, ag and corporate wellness. |
| Jun 27, 2022 | Drought in eastern Africa: is the worst still to come? | Drought in eastern Africa is the worst still to come: Image: Pixabay
Large areas of Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya are currently in the grip of a severe drought. An estimated 16.7 million people face acute food insecurity. That’s more than the... |
| Jun 1, 2022 | Biden-Harris Administration Drought Resilience Interagency Working Group Releases Summary Report, Marks One Year Since Interagency Coordination | Interagency effort to address drought issues through existing and new programs and resources from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
WASHINGTON, June 1, 2022 – The Biden-Harris Administration today released the Drought Resilience Interagency... |
| Apr 1, 2022 | Health
Health | Climate change may push the U.S. toward the ‘Goldilocks zone’ for West Nile virus | Michael Keasling of Lakewood was an electrician who loved big trucks, fast cars, and Harley-Davidsons. He’d struggled with diabetes since he was a teenager, needing a kidney transplant from his sister to stay alive. He was already quite sic... |
| Mar 28, 2022 | Health
Health | Colorado records most West Nile deaths in 18 years as climate change pushes U.S. toward “Goldilocks zone” for virus | By Melissa Bailey, Kaiser Health News
Michael Keasling, of Lakewood, was an electrician who loved big trucks, fast cars, and Harley-Davidsons. He’d struggled with diabetes since he was a teenager, needing a kidney transplant from his sister... |
| Jan 23, 2022 | Wildfire in Big Sur closes part of California's Highway 1 and forces evacuations | A fire burning in California shut down part of Highway 1 and forced evacuations. As of Saturday night, it had grown to 1,050 acres, and was 20% contained, according to Cal Fire.
The blaze — called the Colorado Fire — began around 7:30 p.m. ... |
| Jan 7, 2022 | Critical Water Infrastructure: Investing in Smart Water Solutions for a Sustainable Future | "We're still managing water on the Boise River like it's 1920. If we want to be good stewards of water and save all we can and do all we can, then we ought to use 21st century technology that gives us the tools and ability to do so.&qu... |
| Dec 7, 2021 | Sharon Bokan: Colorado winter landscapes need more water, less grazing during drought | According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the latest first measurable snowfall (0.5 inches) in Boulder was Nov. 26, 1910. (Although the records prior to 1948 are suspect.) The latest first snowfall since 1948 (consid... |
| Oct 3, 2021 | Using tech to transform vegetation management in the wake of the Dixie Fire | Elijah Priwer Contributor
Elijah Priwer is a mechanical engineering student at UC Berkeley, whose interests lie in aerospace engineering, artificial intelligence and astrophysics.
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| Aug 11, 2021 | Take a look at some of the lakes in California that have been swallowed up by the ‘megadrought,’ hitting record low levels | California has been hit by a “megadrought” that has dried up key reservoirs in the state.
Entire lakes have shrunk exponentially, leaving yachts and docks beached on dry land.
Nearly 95% of the state is experiencing “severe drought” and is ... |
| Aug 11, 2021 | Doctors pledge to do no harm. The entire health care sector should do the same by battling climate change | The alarming new report, “Climate Change 2021,” from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change emphatically and unequivocally reports that “human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land.” The next few years will determi... |
| Jun 5, 2021 | Utah governor asks residents to pray for rain to combat a severe drought | In this March 18, 2021, file photo, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox speaks during his monthly news conference in Salt Lake City. Spenser Heaps/The Deseret News via AP, Pool, File
Gov. Spencer Cox asked for Utahns to engage in a “weekend of prayer” to... |
| Jun 4, 2021 | A ‘megadrought’ in California is expected to lead to water shortages for production of everything from avocados to almonds, and could cause prices to rise | California is facing its worst drought in four years.
As water levels continue to fall, farmers have left large portions of their fields unseeded.
The state’s $50 billion agriculture industry supplies over 25% of the nation’s food.
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| Feb 11, 2021 | Reclamation investing $15.4 million to help communities mitigate drought and climate change impacts in Western United States | The American River in California. The El Dorado Water Agency will upgrade two sensors in a 12-sensor American River Hydrologic Observatory network. Photo: Reclamation The projects selected will help communities prepare for the increased ris... |
| Oct 3, 2020 | Boulder County is among nearly 40% of the state experiencing severe drought; communities look at ways to adapt to a drier climate | Water is precious.
With temperatures as high as 100 degrees baking Colorado in September and wildfires raging across tinder-dry forests, sending ash showering down on the Front Range like a dusty, apocalyptic rain — water, a finite resource... |
| Aug 19, 2020 | Climate change hits home in Colorado with raging wildfires, shrinking water flows and record heat | Climate change hit home in Colorado this week, exacerbating multiple environmental calamities: wildfires burning across 135,423 acres, stream flows shrinking to where state officials urged limits on fishing, drought wilting crops, and recor... |
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The Great Western Water Rush Of 2020s Era Residential Real Estate | The 2016 movie version of The Big Short, Michael Lewis’s 2010 best-selling non-fiction account of a handful of quirky contrarians who bet against the housing and financial market bubble of 2008 and won, ended with a teaser.
While the movie ... |
| Why California should reconsider shutting down its last nuclear plant, scientists say | Scientists from MIT and Stanford issued a report outlining a strategy for retrofitting the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in California to add revenue streams, like desalinating ocean water and producing clean hydrogen.
Under the plan, i... |
| Rural California town is facing the end of its water supply by Dec. 1 | Coalinga city officials estimate their small town will run out of water by Dec. 1.
Pro-Tem Mayor Ray Singleton has attempted to purchase water for Coalinga from the open market, but he says it is priced much higher than what it is typically... |
| This startup’s chemically engineered water filtration system helps large farms and industrial processors recycle their wastewater | Wastewater reprocessing startup ZwitterCo announced on Thursday that it has raised $33 million to scale up its chemically engineered membrane water filtration technology to help industrial companies and large farms recycle wastewater.
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| It’s not just eggs: Here’s the ‘perfect storm’ that’s driving up beef prices | Shoppers reeling from the skyrocketing cost of eggs because of a bird flu outbreak may soon see similar price hikes on beef and veal products because of shrinking herd levels, The Post has learned.
“There’s a perfect storm driving up beef a... |
| How Samsung and Texas Instruments made the Lone Star State the hub of U.S. chip manufacturing | On a 1,200-acre plot of land in a small town 30 miles north of Austin, Texas, South Korean giant Samsung is spending $17 billion to build a semiconductor fabrication plant.
Four hours north by car, in the city of Sherman, Texas Instruments ... |
| Photos show the growing Oak Fire wildfire near Yosemite in California, which caused Governor Newsom to declare a state of emergency | Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency for Mariposa County in California near Yosemite National Park as the Oak Fire burned homes, forced thousands of people to evacuate, and closed roads.
The Oak Fire had burned 16,791 acres a... |
