LOS ANGELES - Dangerous heat wave and drought continue to impact the western United States, placing much of the region under extreme drought conditions and in jeopardy of breaking more records. More ...

Greenhouse gases and aerosols emitted by human activity make droughts worse. The western United States is in the midst of an intensifying drought. In the latest U.S. Drought Monitor released Thursday, ...

A Santa Paula cattle rancher walks away from the carcass of one of his animals that died amid extreme drought conditions in 2014. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) Humanity’s heating of the planet, driven ...

DENVER – Drought conditions continue to improve in the eastern half of Colorado, as one-third of the state is drought-free as of this week. But little has changed on the drought-stricken Western Slope ...

Drought and long, hot summer days are sucking Western Colorado’s rivers dry, parching farm fields and fueling the massive wildfires proliferating across the region. A chunk of northwestern Colorado in ...

DENVER – Colorado’s drought situation continues to be a tale of two halves of the state, with the eastern half nearly entirely drought-free as of this week and the western half under ...

The American West is experiencing its driest period in human history, a megadrought that threatens health, agriculture and entire ways of life. DRIED UP is a series of stories examining the dire ...