other signs of drought are quickly creeping in. The reason: July’s extreme heat. “We’ve supercharged our drying,” said John Abatzoglou, a climatologist at UC Merced. Over the past few ...

The native species is adapted to and relies on natural ponds—which, historically, have filled up in the winter and dried out ... rivers drying up, the species she studies “have to make their life ...

A few of us “seniors” who are still around during these few weeks in mid-July might remember the heat wave, drought, Great Depression of July 1936.The highest temperatures ever recorded in ...