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Longer droughts and spotty rainfall are a recipe for water shortage — something already being seen throughout much of the American West. The time between rainfalls has become longer and the rains occurred more erratically in the western U.S. during the last 50 years. (Joel Biederman / Agricultural Research Service) (CN) — With climate change, scientists expect the Southwest U.S. to become hotter and drier over the next century. And according to research published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters on Tuesday, that trend has been well underway for the last half century. Researcher...

April 06, 2021 - 3:04 PM Biden makes all adults eligible for a vaccine on April 19 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden announced Tuesday that he's bumping up his deadline by two weeks for states to make all adults in the U.S. eligible for coronavirus vaccines. But even as he expressed optimism about the pace of vaccinations, he warned Americans that the nation is not yet out of the woods when it comes to the pandemic. “Let me be deadly earnest with you: We aren’t at the finish line. We still have a lot of work to do. We’re still in a life and death race a...

William K. Smith Periods of drought in the western United States have become longer over the past 50 years, according to a new study from researchers in the University of Arizona College of Agriculture and Life Sciences in partnership with the USDA Agricultural Research Service. In hopes of understanding how significantly rainfall totals and timing have changed in the past five decades, the researchers analyzed daily meteorological data from over 300 long-term weather stations across the western U.S. "In the West, total annual rainfall has decreased by about 0.4 inches since the 1970s. The ...