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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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

The governors of Alabama, Florida and Georgia will miss a Bush administration-imposed deadline Friday for settling their 20-year fight over sharing water in the...

Nearly two centuries after a flawed survey placed Georgia’s northern line just short of the Tennessee River, some legislators are suddenly thirsting to set the...