First, there was last summer’s drought. Then came more bad news: skyrocketing fuel and fertilizer prices, and a wet spring that delayed West Virginia...

It’s been a year of drought and sand storms across Iraq _ a dry spell that has devastated the country’s crucial wheat crop and created new worries about the...

In more than four decades of farming, South Plains cotton producer Rickey Bearden says he’s never seen an early growing season like this one.In the past month,...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared a statewide drought after two years of below-average rainfall, low snowmelt runoff and a court-ordered restriction on water...

New research suggests that several years of drought may have added a minute or two to the eruption cycle of Old Faithful geyser. The geyser used to erupt about every 61...

Somalia is facing its worst humanitarian crisis in a decade, and the situation is deteriorating, an international aid agency said Wednesday.Worsening armed conflict,...

Patrons at Patrick’s Pub and Grill drink their beer in Tennessee, but a walk to the restroom in the same building takes them across the state line to a dry county...

What drought? Georgia’s governor has given the go-ahead to fill up outdoor swimming pools. The five-ring fountain at Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Park is...

Australia will need several years of heavy rainfall to reverse the devastating effects of a drought that has battered farm production.

Residents of Dade County have spent much of their history feeling ignored by the rest the state. For decades people had to cut through Alabama or Tennessee to get to...

Lawmakers in drought-parched Georgia voted Friday to ask mapmakers to redraw their state’s northern boundary in hopes of tapping the Tennessee River, in a vote...

Hal Jessee looks at a shovelful of dirt and assesses it as only a lifelong farmer can.”It’s not looking good,” says Jessee, 83, who farms 400 acres...

Climate experts say drought conditions across the Southeast have improved dramatically with the help of recent rains, but the region is not in the clear yet.Only a...

Israel is suffering its worst drought in a decade and will have to stop pumping from one of its main sources of drinking water, the Sea of Galilee, by the end of the...

Brazil’s drought in 2005, the worst-ever hitting the Amazon, was caused by global warming instead of the El Nino weather phenomenon as previously thought, the...

Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne is acknowledging that White House-brokered water negotiations between Alabama, Florida and Georgia have failed to produce an...

Drought-parched Georgia got a “cool wet kiss of friendship” Wednesday from neighboring Chattanooga, Tenn., in the form of a truckload of bottled water...

Drought-parched Georgia got a “cool wet kiss of friendship” Wednesday from neighboring Chattanooga, Tenn. in the form of a truckload of bottled water...

Thirsting for more water in the midst of a drought, Georgia lawmakers have taken a step toward moving the state line so they can tap the mighty Tennessee River.The...

Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said Friday the governors of Alabama, Florida and Georgia would continue water-sharing negotiations for “at least a week”...