Tag: drought

A recent report by Brigham Young University researchers finds that Utah’s Great Salt Lake could disappear within five years unless dramatic steps are taken to reduce water consumption in the...

In response to desert watering drying up due to drought in Southern California, conservationists are planning to install water stations in inland desert areas for bighorn sheep.  With limited amounts...

The Santa Cruz River hasn’t been a reliable source of water since European settlers changed the sustainable water use patterns of Indigenous people like the Hohokam in the late 1800s....

Kenya’s worst drought in decades is taking its toll on the country’s famous wildlife. A recent report found that hundreds of animals, including elephants and endangered Grévy’s zebras have died...

Arroyo toads’ have seemingly weathered long-term drought in California, but the desert specialists are still disappearing from some of their former wetland breeding sites. The arroyo toad (Anaxyrus californicus) is...

When Monte Neate-Clegg was a graduate student managing bird banding stations in riparian areas in Utah, he noticed a lot of fluctuation in the number of birds showing up each...

Every winter, several hundred thousand redhead ducks descend on the Laguna Madres of southern Texas and northeastern Mexico. Redheads wintering in this area, which represent about 80% of the continental...

In the final year of Thomas Martin’s songbird study in Venezuela, he noticed some birds just weren’t breeding. In fact, one species — the gray-breasted wood-wren (Henicorhina leucophrys) — went...

Mitigation measures to maintain ponds in Nevada meadows help the survival of a desert frog species experiencing increasing impacts from climate change-driven droughts. “Drought is one the greatest threats to...

Climate change — and the frequent and intense extreme weather it can bring —  influences some birds differently than others. In a study published in Global Change Biology, researchers tapped...