A new study has identified that “megadroughts” have become drier and hotter in recent decades. The western United States is among the regions with the highest density of multi-year droughts. Climate ...

SAN JOSE, California (AP) - As bad as recent droughts in California, the Southwest and the Midwest have been, scientists say far worse "megadroughts" are coming - and they're bound to last for decades ...

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(CN) — La Niña, the climate event that causes water to be colder than normal in the eastern Pacific, has now been shown by new research released Monday to be responsible for simultaneous megadroughts ...

Megadroughts, persisting for decades at a time, parched the Southwestern U.S. centuries ago between 800 CE and 1600 CE. Then, the extreme droughts stopped. "This is what we would expect to happen in ...

We found a secret history of megadroughts written in tree rings. The wheatbelt's future may be drier than we thought May 18, 2021 by Alison O'donnell, Edward Cook and Pauline Grierson Credit: ...

Photo Caption: This thunderstorm that rolled through San Antonio on July 10 provided a brief respite to the ongoing drought. Photograph by Forrest M. Mims III. The drought we're experiencing is very ...

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America's Southwest may soon be hit "megadroughts" that last for decades—the likes of which have not been seen since the Medieval period, scientists have said. By looking at what caused the 14 ...

Scientists may have unraveled the mystery of what triggered decade-long droughts during medieval times in the American Southwest. These so-called megadroughts were so devastating that entire ...

Megadroughts – defined as intense droughts that last for decades or longer – once plagued the Desert Southwest. In fact, from the 9th to the 15th centuries, at least a dozen medieval megadroughts ...

There is no precedent in contemporary weather records for the kinds of droughts the country’s West will face, if greenhouse gas emissions stay on course, a NASA study said. No precedent even in the ...