By calling the Amazon “the lungs of the world”, the forest’s role in the water cycle is overlooked.

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.

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.