As a drought and water researcher at the Desert Research Institute’s Western Regional Climate Center, here’s what I’m seeing. How fast each region recovers will vary.

A new study in Nature Climate Change shows that Earth’s warming climate has made the western drought about 40 percent more severe, making it the region’s driest stretch since A.D. 800.

Nearly 350 mayors across the country are part of Climate Mayors. The policy proposals were developed by a Western regional group of mayors and their representatives, among them officials from Los ...

Japan's rainy season ended at the earliest date on record in the country's western regions, meteorologists said Friday, as ...

Decades of snuffing out fires at the first sign of smoke combined with climate change have laid the groundwork for a massive wildfire in northern California and scores of smaller ones across the we… ...

By Muniratu Akweley IssahAccra, July 3, GNA– The African Union, in partnership with ECOWAS and the German Development Agency ...

A Himalayan village in Nepal has vanished — emptied by climate change. Samjung, perched in the high-altitude Upper Mustang ...

Experts say a massive wildfire in northern California and scores of smaller ones across the western U.S. and Canada are the legacy of the nation’s fire-suppression experts and climate change.

Various climate regions respond to drought episodes differently, with temperate grasslands the most affected in the past few decades. The researchers noted that changes in greenness cannot be ...

WMO's director for the region Ben Churchill said the organisation's 2024 report into the state of the climate in the ...

Mayors of Western cities are urging the Trump administration to take steps to help address water scarcity as climate change depletes the Colorado River.