California drought

California looks a bit unfamiliar to residents these days: following historic rainfall, the state's landscape has bloomed, bringing life to its formerly brown

A water scientist from Caltech says California is drying up — fast.

A growing middle class is eating lots of red meat, and it could be fueling droughts across the globe.

The Hollywood sign stands in front of snow-covered mountains after another winter storm hit Southern California on March 01, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama/Getty ImagesMuch of the state is under weather warnings after unseasonable snow and rain, with several evacuations issued. The post Powerful atmospheric river pummels California with even more rain and flooding appeared first on Popular Science.

We can stop showering, stop watering our lawns, and stop ordering water in restaurants, but the water used to raise and slaughter millions of cows, pigs, and chickens in California will still drain the state dry.

With 2013 the driest year on record in California and 2014 looking like it might be even drier, farmers are struggling with shrinking yields and possibly up to a half-million acres taken out of production. This is expected to drive up prices for many foods such as fruits, nuts and dairy products. We'll discuss rough times for California's farming community.

As weather extremes intensify with climate change, drought- and fire-prone California will become increasingly vulnerable to natural disasters like fires and landslides.

Property owners, farmers and communities in California could lose water rights that they have held for generations because of the ongoing mega-drought in the Golden State. Farmers could be fined for irrigating crops, homeowners fined for watering lawns and cities fined for taking drinking water from rivers under regulations adopted by the California Water Resources ...

Yes, farmers use a whole lot of Golden State water. But there's no easy solution to the state's drought woes in turning off their taps.

California is in the third year of one of the state's worst droughts in the past century.