YALE CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Why winter rains keep skipping the Southwest Yale Climate Connections Colorado RiverHydrology August 15, 2025by Bob Henson, Yale Climate Connections Climate change appears to have driven an ongoing 25-year shortfall in winter rains and...
INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS: Southwestern drought likely to continue through 2100, research finds Inside Climate News Colorado RiverHydrology July 18, 2025Climate change is warming the North Pacific Ocean, leading weather patterns that drive drought in the U.S. Southwest to persist...
EOS: Modeling the past, present, and future of drought American Geophysical Union Hydrology April 18, 2025A new study combines historical observations, climate modeling, and data from tree rings to create a fuller picture of historic...
COURTHOUSE NEWS: Scientists see echoes of ancient warming world in El Niño Courthouse News Service Hydrology October 22, 2024Duke University researchers and collaborating scientists took a peek into the last 250 million years to understand the causes of...
CORNELL CHRONICLE: 600 years of tree rings reveal climate risks in California Cornell University Hydrology November 28, 2023By David Nutt, Cornell Chronicle An interdisciplinary collaboration used 600 years of tree rings from the San Joaquin Valley to...
NEVADA CURRENT: What a stalagmite from a Grand Canyon cave might tell us about climate change and groundwater Nevada Current Colorado River October 10, 2023by Jeniffer Solis, Nevada Current Summer monsoons in the Southwest are difficult to forecast with total accuracy, but the future...
JEANINE JONES: Drought and lessons learned Maven HydrologyNotebook News and Features March 1, 2023At the January meeting of the California Water Commission, Jeanine Jones took the commissioners through the history of past droughts...
COURTHOUSE NEWS SERVICE: Scientists find the Colorado River was blighted by a worse drought in the 2nd century Courthouse News Service Colorado River June 9, 2022A new study shows that, more than a thousand years ago, the Colorado River Basin had an even worse drought...
COURTHOUSE NEWS: La Niña responsible for megadroughts in North and South America, study finds Courthouse News Service Colorado River August 30, 2021Over the past 1,000 years, the North American Southwest has endured nine megadroughts averaging nearly 32 years in length, while...
NEVADA CURRENT: The IPCC report has a chapter on the Southwest, and it’s brutal Nevada Current Colorado River August 20, 2021by Jeniffer Solis, Nevada Current Drought, wildfires, declining water supplies, threats to human health made even more dangerous by urban...
COURTHOUSE NEWS: Climate Change Fueling More Intense Megadroughts in US West Courthouse News Service Colorado River August 16, 2020Hotter temperatures from climate change will likely mean the worst megadrought the region has ever seen. By Nicholas Iovino, Courthouse...
Climate change and paleoclimatology: Putting California’s drought in a long-term perspective Maven Best of the NotebookHydrologyNotebook News and Features November 3, 2014The University of California’s Agriculture and Natural Resources (UCANR) has developed a series of webinars titled Insights: Water and Drought...
