drought

In the dry, rolling foothills of southern California you will find a community, gated to keep out thieving coyotes, called Rancho Santa Fe. Here residents are ostentatious not only in their homes and vehicles but also in their water consumption, five times the state average per capita, and...

In case you haven't heard the southwest is heading for a mega drought. You all might have missed it with the media establishment falling all over itself to report on the cold out east that somehow proves climate change is wrong. But out west we are facing a huge disaster. My own community only...

I've been looking at the agricultural conditions world wide this northern growing season, and I have to say it is really bad all over; http://tinyurl.com/yrdkl6 That is a lot of the agriculturally important areas of the planet. What I can't find is any real estimate about how bad it has to...

In south-east Australia we have been suffering a drought for several years with some areas having had less than half the long term average rainfall. Politicians, green groups and journalists blame global warming and even argue that it is futile to build desalination plants as emissions would...