Western States: Death By Climate May 3, 2004 / 2:32 PM EDT / CBS/AP Just outside this mountain town, where the acres of ponderosa pine turn into a Christmas green blur, Tom Whitham eyes the weary ...

Drastic Climate Change Out West. May 3, 2004 / 2:38 PM EDT / CBS/AP Just outside this mountain town, where ... regional climatologist for the Western Regional Climate Center in Reno, ...

A new study in Nature Climate Change shows that Earth’s warming climate has made the western drought about 40 percent more severe, making it the region’s driest stretch since A.D. 800.

As a drought and water researcher at the Desert Research Institute’s Western Regional Climate Center, here’s what I’m seeing. How fast each region recovers will vary.

The West is experiencing its most severe megadrought in a millennium, according to a new study. Scientists say climate change is playing a major role.

The late-June heat wave in Oregon, Washingotn and British Columbia was 150 times more likely because of climate change, researchers found.

As human-caused climate change has warmed the world over the past 35 years, the land consumed in flames has more than doubled. ... NOAA western regional climate center director Tim Brown said.

Already in the grip of a stubborn drought, Utah, along with the entire Intermountain West, is facing what looks to be another bleak water year as climate change settles into the region. By Judy ...

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Decades of snuffing out fires at the first sign of smoke combined with climate change have laid the groundwork for a massive wildfire in northern California and scores of smaller ones across the we… ...

Boulder, Colo. — Western governors expressed their united support on Monday for streamlining unique climate solutions aimed at protecting an increasingly vulnerable environment that traverses ...