Drought

TOWNER, N.D. — Darrell Rice stood in a field of corn he’d planted in early June, to be harvested in the fall and chopped up to feed the hundreds of cows and calves he raises in central North Dakota.“It should be six, seven, eight foot…

The severe drought that hit much of the western half of the United States in the spring and summer is likely to last at least into late autumn, state forecasters said Thursday.The September through November outlook compiled by…

This year on the Big Hole River, for example, on one of the most popular stretches, a May census found 400 brown trout per mile, down from 1,800 in 2014. The Beaverhead River has dropped to 1,000 from 2,000 brown trout per mile. And those…

Much of the western half of the United States is suffering from severe drought of historic proportions. Conditions are particularly bad in California and the Southwest, but the drought extends into the Pacific Northwest, much of the…

ALBUQUERQUE - This year, new Mexican officials have a message to farmers who depend on irrigation water from the Rio Grande and other rivers: If you don't absolutely have to plant this year, don't.Years of warming temperatures, a failed…

HSINCHU, Taiwan - Chuang Cheng-deng's humble rice farm is a stone's throw from the nerve center of Taiwan’s computer chip industry, whose products power much of the world's iPhones and other devices.This year, Mr. Chuang pays the prize for…