According to a map of drought conditions from Windy.com, the areas experiencing the most intense drought conditions as of Friday morning included parts of Utah, Arizona, Nevada, California, Colorado, ...

One state had the lion's share of tornadoes between 2020 and 2024-but a different state sustained the most monetary damage.

About a quarter of the United States’s irrigated cropland sits on top of the Ogallala Aquifer in the Great Plains. But water levels are dropping, and states are taking different approaches to ...

Those living in the central United States have been warned to expect another wave of inclement weather over the Memorial Day weekend, with thunderstorms forecast across the central Plains and heat ...

Moisture content, organic matter, and the color of soil varies across the United States, researchers reveal.

The sprawling Ogallala Aquifer in the Great Plains provides freshwater for roughly one-fifth of the wheat, corn, cattle and cotton in the United States. But key parts of the underwater aquifer are ...

The population of the Great Plains teeters on this shrinking agricultural base. While much of Colorado grew, Cheyenne county shrank every year between 2000 and 2006, when it lost more than 300 people.

A conference at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln this spring will examine early efforts to map Nebraska and the Great Plains.

Over the course of 12 months, an area of Great Plains grasslands bigger than the state of Delaware was erased from the map. In 2021 alone, 1.6 million acres were plowed across the United States ...

Only the Pacific Northwest, southern Alaska and the Upper Great Plains regions are forecast to see lower-than-normal temperatures.