The city of Wichita Falls has been urging and requiring less water use as the reservoirs continuing sinking during this terrible drought.But the more successful the campaign to reduce water use is, the less revenue the city collects from water bills, and that means less money to maintain and impro Full story
Spring sprung early in 2012, breaking records across the lower 48 states, a new study finds. Full story
About 6,000 people who live on the remote northern atolls of the Marshall Islands are facing an acute shortage of fresh water as a severe drought worsens. Full story
Fairly persistent rain so far this year has ended the long-term drought in Georgia-Carolina. Full story
A wet spring continues to soak soil across much of the Midwest, causing the prolonged drought to retreat ever so slowly westward. Full story
This week's update from the U.S. Drought Monitor shows more improvement in parts of south-central and eastern Minnesota, where areas that had been abnormally dry are now rated normal. Full story
Drought leaves America's last corn cob pipe factory fighting for survival. KSDK's Steve Patterson reports.
A popular Kansas attraction has shut down due to drought. KSNW's Felix Rodrigues Lima reports.
The National Weather Service has told the folks along the Red River in Fargo, N.D., and the surrounding area to prepare for perhaps one of the top five floods in that city's history. Weather Channel’s Chris Warren reports.
Last year was one for the history books, as a long-term warming trend brought two record highs for each record low between 2000 and 2010. And even more concerning, in the past year there were five record highs for each low recorded. NBC’s Anne Thompson reports.
How the U.S. drought is affecting the global agriculture business, and how to play the industry, with Martin Richenhagen, CEO of Agco Corporation.
A photographer takes pictures of a man checking on a dried-up cistern in a village of Weining county, Guizhou province, March 16, 2013. More than one million people in Guizhou and Gansu provinces are facing a drinking water shortage due to two lingering droughts, according to Xinhua News Agency. Pi
A girl looks up as she stands at a dried well in a village of Weining county, Guizhou province, March 16, 2013. More than one million people in Guizhou and Gansu provinces are facing a drinking water shortage due to two lingering droughts, according to Xinhua News Agency. Picture taken March 16, 201
A man carrying a pack basket walks across a dried-up field in a village of Weining county, Guizhou province, March 16, 2013. More than one million people in Guizhou and Gansu provinces are facing a drinking water shortage due to two lingering droughts, according to Xinhua News Agency. Picture taken
A farmer carrying a hoe walks past a dried-up pond in Shilin Yi Autonomous County of Kunming, Yunnan province February 28, 2013. China's drought relief authority said on February 21 that about 600,000 people are facing shortage of drinking water amid severe drought that hit southwest China's Yunnan
