Widespread flooding reported along coast in Mid-Atlantic region

AP-Beijing Plans to raise the water level behind China's massive Three Gorges dam to full capacity this month

Farmers, businesses and residents fight over dwindling supply.

JPL SMAP scientists brief NASA administrator.

(AP) ATLANTA -- The drought that plagued the Southeast has been over for months, but to many in north Georgia it didn't officially release its grip until Wednesday when it reached a height it hadn't topped in more than four years.

(AP) PARIS — Not war but drought has forced more than 100,000 people in northern Iraq to abandon their homes since 2005, with 36,000 more on the verge of leaving, UNESCO said Tuesday.

CNN) -- The death toll from flooding in the Philippines climbed to 140 Monday as a tropical depression in the Pacific sparked new fears of flooding.

Unchecked global warming could bring a severe temperature rise of 4C within many people's lifetimes, according to a new report for the British government that significantly raises the stakes over climate change.

Dust storms like the one that plagued Sydney are blowing bacteria to all corners of the globe, with viruses that will attack the human body. Yet these scourges can also help mitigate climate change

Kyle McDonald and Erika Podest briefed Deputy NASA Administrator Lori Garver on SMAP during her visit to JPL on Thursday, August 27. The briefing was attended by JPL Director Charles Elachi and JPL Director for Earth Science and Technology Diane Evans.

It never rains Aug 20th 2009 | BAMHETA, UTTAR PRADESH From The Economist print edition SHARMILA SHARMA, a farmer in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, lounges with three sisters-in-law and six buffaloes in the broad shade of a neem tree. It is not the blistering heat that is keeping the women away from their land of a little over an acre (0.4 hectares). Like most Indian farmers, the Sharmas have no access to irrigation systems. They depend on the monsoon rains that fall between June and September. This year the rains have not come. No rain, nothing, says Sharmila, as she flicks away flies with the edge of her scarlet sari. The family has been unable to plant its main sorghum crop, she says, and their buffaloes are becoming diseased, a euphemism for starving.

Page last updated at 11:07 GMT, Wednesday, 24 June 2009 12:07 UKIndian officials say that monsoon rains in the country are likely to be "below normal" triggering off fears about crop failure and high food prices.

(Reuters) The amount of carbon locked away in frozen soils in the far Northern Hemisphere ...

As the West warms, a drier Colorado River system could see as much as a one-in-two chance of fully depleting all of its reservoir storage by mid-century assuming current management practices continue on course, according to a new University of Colorado at Boulder study.