Jul 26 Watch Severe Drought Kills Hopes of Record Corn Harvest Severe Drought Kills Hopes of Record Corn Harvest… Continue watching
Jul 26 Watch Food Prices Rise Across the US Due to Drought Food Prices Rise Across the US Due to Drought… Continue watching
Jul 26 Watch Severe Drought to Drive Up Food Prices Headline: Severe Drought to Drive Up Food Prices… Continue watching
Jul 26 USDA: Severe Drought Will Drive Up Cost of Food The drought gripping the Midwest is affecting 88 percent of the country's corn crop and will send food prices up next year, according to a report released Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Continue reading
Jul 17 Watch Facing Drought, Farmers' Crops Taking Heat Facing Drought, Farmers' Crops Taking Heat… Continue watching
Jul 17 Measuring Significant Drought Years By Larisa Epatko More than half of the continental United States was in moderate to extreme drought in June -- including corn- and soybean-producing states -- damaging crops and impacting prices at the grocery store. Continue reading
Jul 13 Watch How 'Twilight' Stardom Helped the Quileute's Land Struggle For more on this story go to http://www.pbs.org/newshour/topic/climate-change/… Continue watching
Jul 10 Watch Extreme Weather Records 'Like a Baseball Player on Steroids' As temperatures soared past 110 degrees in some states and thunderstorms pummeled the deep South, raising fears of flooding, a new report says climate change has likely influenced the odds of extreme weather. Judy interviews Thomas Karl, director of NOAA's… Continue watching
Jul 06 Were More Than 3,000 Heat Records Actually Set in June? Here at the NewsHour, the record heat has hit close to home. Our managing editor Tom Kennedy, for example, spent six of the last nine days of 95-degree-plus heat without power. The thermostat peaked at 90 degrees inside his Maryland… Continue reading
Jul 05 Watch Power Outages Linger in Storms' Aftermath Six days after fierce storms hit numerous mid-Atlantic states, more than 500,000 people still remained without power. Also, Pakistan reopened routes to Afghanistan after having closed them for seven months, and the first trucks rumbled through Thursday. Continue watching