rain

A form of entertainment and outgrowth of desperation, self-styled rainmakers allowed the powerless people of the Great Plains to seemingly take action.

After Charles Hatfield began his work to wring water from the skies, San Diego experienced its wettest period in recorded history.

History reveals that even weakening storms do catastrophic damage when they hit mountainous regions.

Her athletic performance in New York impressed onlookers of all colors and cracked opened the door for a new generation of Black players to come.

Designed as a bucolic working-class suburb of St. Louis, the nearly all-black town of Centreville now floods with raw sewage every time it rains.

An Iraqi soldier recalls fleeing through hell at the end of the first gulf war.

What can past droughts tell us about tomorrow?

On the porous, ever-shifting boundaries between science and speculation.

In the 1950s the construction of a dam on the Texas–Mexico border displaced communities from their land—and anticipated the wall-building underway today.

Our own world is built from copper, and so too will future worlds be.

Using the historical record to model long-term wind patterns in remote parts of the world where few instrumental data sets prior to 1957 exist.

The 400-year-old site of Jamestown, Va., battered by flooding and climate change, is listed as endangered.

If we accept that we live in a desert nation, we can glean insights about how to live with aridity.

The explorer John Wesley Powell tried to prevent the overdevelopment of the West.

Hunter-gatherer societies may have a bigger ecological impact than we thought.

When a dam gave way after unprecedented rainfall, it sent a wall of water barreling toward a Pennsylvania town of 30,000 people.

According to John Wesley Powell, outside of the Pacific Northwest, the arid lands of the west could not be farmed without irrigation.