Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Parts of Carroll and Columbiana counties got upgraded Thursday to an "extreme drought," marking the return of such conditions ...

The area of the country experiencing three out of five levels of drought expanded over the past week. A "flash drought" could be on the way for portions of at least 10 states by the end of September.

Climate change is making droughts faster and more furious, especially a specific fast-developing heat-driven kind that catch farmers by surprise, a new study found. The study in Thursday’s journal ...

Flash droughts are severe droughts that rapidly intensify over weeks rather than seasons, desiccating land and ravaging livelihoods without warning. As a result, governments need to treat them as a ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Central Texas and the state as a whole continues to grapple with a deepening water deficit, according to the latest U.S. Drought Monitor released this week. A week-over-week comparison ...

Showers are continuing to sweep across parts of the drought-stricken Southern Plains and Southeast, drenching much of central ...

ATLANTA — With just 4% of its normal precipitation so far this meteorological fall, a drought is intensifying in metro Atlanta. In the latest U.S. Drought Monitor, released Thursday, Oct. 9, Level D2 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. One meteorologist is warning that flash drought has struck Texas after ...