Rainfall amounts across many parts of the UK have been below average for the last two years. Importantly, this includes two dry winters – the periods when we would normally expect our rainfall to replenish river, reservoir and groundwater levels. 2010 was the eleventh-driest year in the series from 1910 ...

By Alex Sosnowski, Expert Senior Meteorologist Mar 13, 2012; 11:05 AM ET Lake Tahoe and other mountain resorts in the West will be clobbered by heavy snow over the next five to seven days. (Photos.com image) As the East experiences May-like weath...

By Jim Andrews, Senior Meteorologist Mar 13, 2012; 7:58 AM ET Credit: Photos.com/Greg Henry Tough water restrictions have been issued for 20 million UK residents in light of worsening drought in England. The restrictions, including a "hosepipe ba...

Ties to land are curbing migration and improving access to everything from loans to compensation for crop losses

More Texas drought relief is on its way this weekend as heavy rain douses the Lone Star State. The rain won't stop there, expanding into the Mississippi Valley for the end of the weekend.

The stats are in on the winter that wasn’t, and the December through February period stacks up as the fourth-warmest winter on record for the Lower 48 states, according to newly released numbers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis...

[African Arguments] The recent Tuareg uprising in Mali under the banner of the MNLA has raised concerns ...

James Inhofe, Republican Senator from Oklahoma, has a new book out. It is entitled The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future. I have not read it yet. So I cannot say much about its contents, but I can say this: Th...

What will drought mean for Britain's wildlife?

As spring approaches, recent rains across much of the state are giving drought-weary Texans hope that the devastation may be over.

Alarm bells are ringing about the growing threat of drought across much of England. Two dry winters in succession have left rivers, reservoirs and groundwater desperately low in many places, and the weather forecast for the near future is not encouragi...

Devastating drought grips Paraguay as winter approaches

Environmental groups in Côte d'Ivoire say the illegal logging and sale of wood from the African gum tree is exposing the north of the country to the encroaching desert. The NGOs are calling on the authorities to take firmer action against the illi...

South-east England is officially in a state of drought, the government confirms, as a summit is held to find ways to prevent the situation worsening.

Parts of England face "crippling drought" with some rivers and groundwater levels lower than in 1976, it is warned ahead of a drought summit.

The continuous drought in southwest Yunnan province has affected more than 1.44 million people, and the dry weather will persist through the first half of February, local authorities said Thursday.

The southwestern province of Yunnan, especially the rural areas of the provincial capital Kunming, are suffering from drought as scant rainfall has fallen there since the start of January.

CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley - Historic drought drying up Texas town After 31 straight weeks of drought nearly 60 percent of Texas is bone dry. Anna Werner visited the town of Spicewood Beach where the situation is more desperate than anywhere...

After 31 straight weeks of drought nearly 60 percent of Texas is bone dry. Anna Werner visited the town of Spicewood Beach where the situation is more desperate than anywhere else in the state.

U.S. Drought Monitor reclassified cities as first metropolitan Texas area out of drought; Water restrictions expected to be eased

IRIN (Nairobi)-Cases of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), as well as domestic violence, are increasing in camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Hargeisa, capital of the self-declared independent Republic of Somaliland, with social wor...

Research shows northern forests in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba are drying up and shrinking from drought caused by climate change, while the eastern boreal forest is holding its own.

8,000-gallon water delivery helps see Spicewood through as wells run nearly dry

25.11.2011 - 04:04:48 - Drought event happened in Middle-America / Mexico. [Event details updated!]

By Alex Sosnowski, Expert Senior Meteorologist Jan 31, 2012; 10:38 AM ET The same storm bringing snow to part of the Plains and severe weather to part of the South Central states will bring more drenching rain to part of Texas, Oklahoma and other...

The drought ravaging Texas has done what the Dust Bowl could not: forced ranchers to ship cattle more than 600 miles north to Nebraska.

Needs remain huge despite improvements in malnutrition rates

New data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA show that for the 35th year in a row, the globe was warmer than average during 2011, and about the 10th-warmest year on record since 1880. Officials said warming was hindered ...

“Needless haemorrhage of human lives is an outrage” says former U.N. emergency aid chief

Drought is a frequent visitor in Australia. The Australian Bureau of Meteorology describes the typical rainfall over much of the continent as “not only low, but highly erratic.” Over the last decade, drought has dominated Australian weather. Betwee...