Warmer winters increasingly produce rain instead of snow, trigger mid-season melting and shorten snow-cover duration. The risks emerge gradually and creep across drainage basins through a phenomenon ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A serious lack of rainfall across Atlantic Canada in recent months has pushed drought conditions to critical levels throughout the ...

Officials say a deepening drought in Central and Atlantic Canada is creating water supply issues and underlining concerns about crop conditions and wildfires. The latest national outlook shows large ...

Researchers at Concordia have developed a new method of measuring the amount of usable water stored in snowpacks. The comprehensive technique, known as snow water availability (SWA), uses satellite ...

Many parts of the world are predicted to endure “day-zero droughts,” periods of extreme and unprecedented water scarcity, which could happen as soon as this decade in certain hotspots including parts ...