Dariel Vasquez, an 18-year-old volunteer firefighter from New Jersey, died Sunday in New York while helping battle a wildfire ...

Dry conditions and moderate droughts are a normal part of the mid-Atlantic’s climate. The Philadelphia region’s “drought of ...

Temperature rise from climate change means trouble for Western states robbed of moisture by “thirstier” atmosphere. Listen to ...

New research shows global warming has become the dominant driver of worsening drought in the western United States.

To make matters worse, recent data reveals that human-triggered fires are often more destructive and harder to contain than ...

Conditions in some northeast states are the driest they've been in nearly 120 years as numerous wildfires continue to burn.

And heatwaves fuelled by climate change can worsen dry conditions when they do occur, by increasing evaporation from the soil ...

Before hotter temperatures — driven by humans burning fossil fuels — droughts were caused by shifting weather patterns and fluctuating rainfall as part of a natural cycle, she said.

Brian Fuchs, a climatologist with the National Drought Mitigation Center, told Newsweek that the last time drought to this ...

The ever-expanding drought in New England has reached critical levels in Massachusetts and is worsening in Rhode Island, ...

Dry, unseasonably warm conditions have plunged much of the Northeast into drought, fueling wildfires. October was one of the ...