Jan 31 Watch News Wrap: California to cut off state-supplied water due to drought By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jan 22 Watch 2:50 Calif. calls for water conservation in response to record drought By PBS News Hour, Jeffrey Brown A dry spell that has been building for three years has become a full-on emergency in California. Gov. Jerry Brown called it the worst drought on record and has asked everyone across the state to conserve water. Jeffrey Brown reports… Continue watching
Jan 22 Watch California's drought could mean bad news at the grocery store By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jan 17 California governor declares drought emergency By Alexis Cox California Governor Jerry Brown declared a drought emergency. Continue reading
Jan 17 Watch News Wrap: Miss. man pleads guilty to sending poisoned letters to politicians By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Friday, James Everett Dutschke of Mississippi pleaded guilty to sending letters laced with the toxic substance ricin to the president, a U.S. senator and a judge. Also, California Gov. Jerry Brown declared a drought emergency in… Continue watching
May 02 Watch Archaeologists Make Grisly Discovery About Starvation at Jamestown Settlement According to historians, the people who settled Jamestown, America's first permanent English community, arrived during the worst drought in 800 years. Accounts from the time tell of residents forced to eat dogs, cats, rodents and shoe leather. But a recent… Continue watching
Dec 21 Remembering a Year of Wild Weather By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Wild winds, a searing drought, fires and a superstorm -- 2012 was a year of unusual and devastating natural disasters. These photos show what those erratic weather patterns meant for millions of Americans. Continue reading
Aug 16 Watch Shifting Seasons Lead to Sour Year for Michigan Cherry Farmers Shifting Seasons Lead to Sour Year for Michigan Cherry Farmers… Continue watching
Aug 10 Watch Half of U.S. Plagued by Drought, Bleak Expectations for Corn and Soybean Crops Half of U.S. Plagued by Drought, Bleak Expectations for Corn and Soybean Crops… Continue watching