droughts and heat waves

Farmers were already worried that this growing season would be hampered by a cold, wet spring, and weeks of developing drought conditions. Now, they're trying to salvage what crops survived those challenges and have recently been drowning in flooded fields or afflicted with mold or disease.

Baltimore has so much to lose from climate change; it is only right that it should be among the nation’s strongest advocates for sustainability.

In partnership with the Howard County Board of Rabbis, Jewish Federation of Howard County started an emergency fundraising campaign to help feed the small Jewish community in Uganda, known as the Abayudaya, raising more than $10,000 in less than a week.

Shomari O'Connor was in his north Baltimore apartment Thursday afternoon watching the storm when he saw trees bending and the windows begin to vibrate from the wind.

Central Maryland is under a drought warning, with unusually dry conditions already present across most of the state.

A burst of wet weather to end November did not ease a drought that continues to develop across Maryland.

More than an inch of rain could fall Tuesday and Wednesday, helping ease a drought that is developing across the region.

Carroll, Howard, Frederick and Montgomery counties are officially in a drought, and most of the rest of the state is unusually dry, according to the United

The late summer heat wave has wiped out games and practices again Friday for all Baltimore City high schools and seven non-air conditioned Baltimore County high schools.

With temperatures in the high 90s and a heat index as high as 106 degrees, Howard County employees and residents are taking every possible precaution to stay cool Monday in the scorching summer weather.

Spider webs are normally washed away by rain, but during drought, webs remain longer.

Temperatures briefly reached 90 degrees Friday afternoon at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, a fourth consecutive day of heat and the longest stretch above 90 degrees this year.

Just a few years ago, the district used a criteria that if the heat index at Baltimore¿s Inner Harbor reached 90 degrees by 11:00 a.m., schools would close two and one-half hours early.

Mock all you want, Republicans, but O'Malley is dead-on about the global security threats of climate change.

Projects underway at U.S. Department of Agriculture facilities in Maryland and elsewhere, highlighted in a report released last month, represent a push by the agency to find commercial uses for its inventions.

The water crisis is not just a problem for Californians, it is a problems for all Americans, says David Horsey.

A late summer heat wave will continue through this week, according to the National Weather Service, with high temperatures not expected to drop from around 90 degrees until Sunday.

Tomato plants are like canaries in the coal mine when it comes to herbicide injury. They are super sensitive to the chemical 2,4-D and its family of growth-regulating herbicides, including clopyralid.

Bel Air Town Commissioners were advised to move forward with the next phase of negotiations in the creation of a regional water and sewer authority.

The Town of Bel Air is considering new options for supplying water during droughts.

"Abnormally dry" conditions have developed across a swath of Central Maryland, after much of the state spent 2012 in some level of drought conditions.

A major part of the Washington Surburban Sanitary Commission's system is Rocky Gorge Dam, which was renamed in 1967 after T. Howard Duckett, one of the founders of the WSSC. Construction of the dam was necessary to keep pace with the expanding population in the region.

As Marylanders await springlike temperatures, a few weather-related risks are on the horizon: the allergy and wildfire seasons.

Fracking in Pennsylvania is destroying the environment and fouling the drinking water.

Forecasts for a post-Election Day nor'easter could bring rain, snow or a wintry mix to Maryland.

For the first time since March, no part of Maryland is in a drought watch or warning, according to environment officials.

Drought-related corn prices shouldn't be used as excuse to step back from renewable energy

Garden Q&A

The rain this past weekend finally lifted Harford County, along with the rest of central Maryland, out of a drought watch but the area remains pretty dry, as some observers have noticed.