Around half of England and the whole of Wales are officially in drought as provisional Met Office figures reveal both experienced the driest July on record this year. England recorded just 6.5mm of ...

Storm Rachel pounds Southern California with heavy rain and flash flood warnings as the state braces for an El Niño surge. An intensifying El Nino pattern set an all-time temperature high in a key ...

Ocean temperature patterns appear to act as a natural brake on the global spread of drought, preventing vast areas of the planet from drying out simultaneously. Researchers found that shifting climate ...

The U.S. Drought Monitor (USDM) is widely used to show where and how extensive drought conditions are across the country. For those interested in agriculture production, it is a widely anticipated and ...