How has climate change reshaped drought in the West Midlands?
The origins of the "flash drought" and how things compare to the conditions of 1976.

The Nueces River Authority is working on a project that could expand the Corpus Christi region’s water supply, but the Texas governor has done little to address the agency’s financial problems, despite appointing every member of its board.
A new study calculates that human-caused climate change doubled the likelihood of the tinderbox weather conditions that sparked Canada’s massive summer wildfires.
A new study calculates that human-caused climate change doubled the likelihood of the tinderbox weather conditions that sparked Canada’s massive summer wildfires.
While “smoke taint” from last month’s hazy skies isn’t an immediate threat, grape growers say it comes on the heels of a growing season already fraught with climate extremes.
As Washington state reels from a devastating wildfire that destroyed hundreds of homes in Spokane last weekend, experts say the disaster has cast newfound uncertainty over a property insurance market.
A new AP-NORC poll finds that Americans are increasingly noticing the impact of extreme heat on their lives, and much of that shift is happening in the West and Midwest.
An appeals court ruling unfreezing the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund could be a major boost for efforts to bring clean energy to communities around the country — or just the latest turn of the legal screw.
