Ocean temperatures may be quietly protecting the world from a global drought catastrophe. By analyzing more than a century of climate data, researchers discovered that droughts rarely spread across ...

A new study shows heat waves increasingly trigger sudden, severe droughts across the world as the planet warms.

For decades, scientists have relied on a chemical fingerprint inside water molecules to determine where plants get their moisture. The method shaped our understanding of drought resilience, ...

A tool originally designed to monitor the erosion of Scotland's coast has proven its worth on a tropical island the other ...