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All Articles Tagged As: drought
California experienced centuries-long droughts in the past 20,000 years that coincided with the thawing of ice caps in the Arctic, according to analysis of stalagmites from a cave in the Sierra Nevada.
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 | New analysis shows that the water scarcity being experienced in southeast Australia started up to 15 years ago. ...> Full Article |
 | Two abrupt and drastic climate events, 700 years apart and more than 45 centuries ago, are teasing scientists who are now trying to use ancient records to predict future world climate. The events -- one, a massive, long-lived drought believed to have dried large portions of Africa and Asia, and the other, a rapid cooling that accelerated the growth of tropical glaciers -- left signals in ice cores and other geologic records from around the world. ...> Full Article |
Rivers in some of the world's most populous regions are losing water, according to a comprehensive study of global stream flows.
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 | Devastating droughts worse than the infamous Sahel drought are part of the normal climate regime for sub-Saharan West Africa, according to new research. Scientists have developed the first almost year-by-year record of the last 3,000 years of West Africa's climate. In that period, catastrophic droughts occurred every 30 to 65 years, and the pattern can be expected to continue in the future, the team reports in the April 17 issue of the journal Science. ...> Full Article |
New study investigates effects of extreme hydrological events on vegetation
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 | Recent modeling results show that the depth of the water table, which results from lateral water flow at the surface and subsurface, determines the relative susceptibility of regions to changes in temperature and precipitation. ...> Full Article |
 | Science team designing a NASA satellite mission to collect global soil moisture measurements and other data seen as key to improving weather, flood and drought forecasts and predictions of agricultural productivity and climate change. ...> Full Article |
 | Analysis of current and scheduled use and human-induced
climate change sparks urgent warning from researchers at
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego ...> Full Article |
 | Researchers in a new Science article published online warn that human-caused climate change has dramatically altered the water flow over the past 50 years in several Western states. ...> Full Article |
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