Much of Massachusetts remains under a Level 3 Critical Drought — one step lower than the most dire rating. The entire state ...

South Africa's updated NDCs present a critical opportunity to prioritise adaptation in climate action, addressing ...

South Africa will issue import permits for genetically engineered white and yellow corn from the US after a mid-summer ...

Even though the rain helped us out with the brush fire danger for now the drought conditions continue. Over an inch of rain ...

New York has declared a citywide drought watch as it experiences one of the longest dry streaks on record. Last month was the driest October since recordkeeping began in 1869, with minimal rain to ...

A major brush fire erupted at Blue Hills Reservation on Monday night, and crews continued to battle the blaze Tuesday. The fire sparked Monday night near Houghton's Pond and quickly grew to more than ...

Dry conditions in the Northeast are worsening, creating a scenario for fire danger in the region to persist, an updated map from the U.S. Drought Monitor shows. The worst of the drought conditions are ...

Experts discuss how the Northeast will deal with persistent drought. Dry conditions in the Northeast are worsening, creating a scenario for fire danger in the region to persist, an updated map ...

A new map issued Thursday morning by the National Drought Mitigation Center shows an extreme drought now exists across all of Atlantic County and wide swaths of Burlington, Camden, Cape May ...

which constitutes a "critical drought." Cape Cod is considered to be "abnormally dry" at the moment. According to the MassAir map, the air quality is "good" in all parts of the state. "Usually if ...

The National Drought Mitigation Center map updates weekly, with the most recent one published last Thursday. A map created by Newsweek shows varying drought conditions across the U.S. "An ...

This is a request to all Town Topics readers who have a birdbath in their yard. As the days and weeks tick by with little or no rain, I’ve observed an ever increasing number of birds of all kinds (and ...