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

Ocean temperatures may be quietly protecting the world from a global drought catastrophe. By analyzing more than a century of ...

A worldwide drought has devastated communities across the globe, but it also has fascinated millions as historic artifacts have come to the surface, igniting memories from decades to centuries before.

A new study finds ocean cycles disrupt synchronized global drought, reducing the risk of simultaneous crop failures worldwide ...

A new report warns that drought is fueling a global hunger crisis, with more than 90 million people in Africa on the brink of starvation and key food supplies disrupted worldwide. Experts say this ...

What happens when major food-growing regions face drought at the same time? New research suggests that natural ocean cycles ...

Flash droughts are severe droughts that rapidly intensify over weeks rather than seasons, desiccating land and ravaging ...