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InsideClimate News -- Thanks to climate change, extreme weather disasters have hammered the United States with increasing frequency in recent years—from drought and wildfires to coastal storms and flooding.

L.A. homeowners can trade green (lawns) for green (cash).

2012 brought extreme heat and drought. But that's nothing to what's around the corner.

The European heatwave of 2003, the Russian heatwave of 2010, last year's record-breaking drought and heat in Texas? All climate change.

In addition to the impact on water availability, vegetation, biodiversity, a new study shows that chronic drought will also decrease carbon storage potential.

The newfound aquifer contains enough water to quench Kenya for decades to come.

The historic drought of 2011 and 2012 cost more than $50bn, greater than the economic damage caused by hurricane Sandy. Unfortunately, NOAA predicts 2013 will be even worse.

Cermak Road in Chicago has earned the title “Greenest Street in America” through its use of landscaping, wind power, irrigation, drought-resistant native p...

Drought is one of the environmental consequences of global warming - but it also has enormous financial repercussions.