Over 50 fire ecologists across the Western U.S. took an unprecedented look at how forests in thousands of locations are recovering from fire in a changing climate. The results were alarming.

Over 50 fire ecologists across the Western U.S. took an unprecedented look at how forests in thousands of locations are recovering from fire in a changing climate. The results were alarming.

New research introduces a concept called the "ecosystem wilting point," which explains how whole forests respond to drought.

Even after January’s storms, California faces a water-scarce future. An economist and an engineer propose a way to test higher water prices as a conservation strategy without hurting low-income users.

Lake Powell’s existential crisis is a unique opportunity to save a treasured landscape.

Efforts to save water because of a drought can disproportionately affect low-income families, researchers report.

A monster hurricane, destructive storms and a drought that disrupted businesses across the economy led the list of the year’s costliest disasters.

With a weather disaster unfolding in California and memories of December’s bone-chilling winter storms fresh in many people’s minds, NOAA released its list of the costliest disasters of 2022.

Fifty years ago, the Salton Sea was a draw for boaters and fishermen; today it’s an ecological time bomb. Two water experts who served on a state review panel describe its proposed rescue plan.

Urban infrastructure was designed to take stormwater out to the ocean quickly. Now, California needs that precious water.