Agriculture

Water sources and animals may look clean, but can still be contaminated.

The $1.2 billion proposal is a potential breakthrough in a stalemate over how to deal with a rising problem that pitted Western states against one another.

State preparedness activities have included filling sandbags, shoring up dikes, and the updating of some county websites with additional information and resources.

Heartland states like Minnesota and South Dakota are training rural clergy in suicide prevention.

The falloff in enforcement was revealed in data obtained by the Associated Press.

Some Republican lawmakers contend the changes are a backdoor to excluding agricultural and energy development interests.

The request of the $500,000 would be a 1:1 match for a total $1 million investment over five years.

All that rain and snow means California can provide 100% of the water requested by cities and farms for the first time in years.

Those older forests cover an area larger than California but are under threat by fires, insects, disease and other side-effects of climate change.

Cloud seeding involves using planes and ground-based equipment to put silver iodide into clouds when weather conditions are right.