Transboundary watersheds supply water, food, and energy to vast populations and play a critical role in sustaining natural ecosystems. Precipitation variability and drought directly influence water ...

At grassland sites worldwide, including the Midwest and Great Plains, scientists simulated extreme drought conditions. The study provides a far-reaching and systematic look at the effects of drought ...

COLUMBIA - A dry summer was even drier on portions of the University of Missouri's Bradford Research and Extension Center with the help of two greenhouse-like structures. The movable structures were ...

The extreme wet and dry periods Mongolia has experienced in the late 20th and early 21st centuries are rare but not unprecedented and future droughts may be no worse, according to an international ...

Both the length and intensity of drought can work together to have cumulative, negative effects on grasslands, according to a new global study published in Science. An international group of ...