The University of Nebraska–Lincoln's National Drought Mitigation Center and the United Nations' Convention to Combat Desertification have released a report outlining the impacts of drought around the ...

Aegilops tauschii, as a donor of D genome to the bread wheat with a valuable source of resistance to different biotic and abiotic stresses, is used to improve the quality of wheat cultivars. Every ...

Purdue Extension urban forestry specialist Lindsey Purcell inspects leaves of a tulip poplar, Indiana’s state tree, for damage from lack of water. Although turning of leaf color is inevitable in ...

The top-line findings of a massive analysis of the growth rate of more than 20,000 tropical trees in more than 30 countries may at first seem reassuring: that droughts over the past century have had a ...

During a historic drought in northern Kenya, a pastoralist community turned to a food source it had long viewed as a fallback for people without livestock: fishing. As herds dwindled and families ...

Contrary to predictions that changes in climate are going to cause forest, cropland, and rangeland productivity to decline over time, recent data show that the known fertilizing effect of additional ...

VIRGINIA BEACH — On a cool, overcast day last week, a group of farmers on NextGen Farm worked to plant an annual soybean trial. The team from the Virginia Cooperative Extension and the farm’s owner, ...

Deviation in soil moisture during the 2022 summer compared to a normal summer, in units of standard deviation. Pink stippling indicates locations where 2022 was the driest summer since 1960. The ...

Mississippi’s drought is not over, despite recent rain, and several counties across the state remain under burn bans as the region heads into fall wildfire season.

With the state announcing the drought status of the Connecticut River Valley Region improved from Level 2 to a Level 1 mild drought, Westfield's Board of Water Commissioners is announcing it is ...