As climate change increases the frequency of environmental disasters, experts say federal cuts could leave California and ...

Nestled in California's Sierra Nevada mountains is a former mining town with an unusual name and past that will pique any ...

New Mexico and Arizona typically stand to benefit the most from the North American monsoon, getting anywhere between 10% to ...

Atmospheric rivers are long, narrow regions of water vapor in the atmosphere, like a river in the sky. These systems gather ...

As Nevada and its neighbors argue and a deadline looms, the Trump administration has chosen the official who will oversee contentious Colorado River negotiations if approved by the U.S. Senate ...

For the study, the researchers analyzed data from more than 43,000 atmospheric river storms from 122 U.S. West Coast watersheds that occurred between 1980 and 2023. The goal of the study was to ...

The Trump administration canceled a deal that would have enabled the removal of four hydroelectric dams along the Columbia River that are considered harmful to salmon.

Environment Trump ends historic Columbia River deal with tribes, Northwest states on endangered fish Published: Jun. 12, 2025, 5:02 p.m.

The result of the increase, the simulation predicted, could be that the frequency of atmospheric rivers over Antarctica doubles by the end of the century, with the precipitation that these events ...

LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — A U.S. senator has reintroduced a measure to sell off public land in Nevada and other Western states to fund a GOP tax bill, despite the vocal opposition from the state's ...

Snapshot of the simulated landfall of an atmospheric river along the west coast of North America on February 11, 2020. Credit: DOE Office of Science, Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM ...

More information: Mariana J. Webb et al, Wet Antecedent Soil Moisture Increases Atmospheric River Streamflow Magnitudes Nonlinearly, Journal of Hydrometeorology (2025). DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-24-0078.1 ...