Going back through U.S. weather station records dating to 1955, Kunkel found that rain over the past 20 years has become more ...

Under the Great Plains, there's an aquifer powering the region's agriculture system. But it's running out of water, prompting farmers in middle America to consider more environmentally friendly crops.

Dozens of storm-chasing meteorologists have undertaken the largest-ever study of extreme hail across the US Great Plains. New Scientist environment reporter James Dinneen hitched a ride inside a ...

Though the county did not get the most rain from the storms, the “distribution of rainfall was one of the worst possible patterns” because the most intense downpours were over the headwaters of the ...

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The United States is experiencing its first significant heat wave of the year, which began on June 20 across the Great Plains and expanding into parts ... face a hotter than average summer this year.

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A team of scientists from the University of Miami, the Florida Aquarium and Tela Marine in Honduras is working together to ...

Construction is now underway on the most ambitious development in Taronga Western Plains Zoo’s history, the Serengeti Resort in Dubbo.

At the same time, 145 basins are expected to be drier, especially in the Southwest, southern Great Plains, and Florida. In the West, California has already faced some of its worst droughts in ...