Scientists will get $25 million to study salt lake ecosystems in the drought-stricken U.S. West, including Utah’s Great Salt Lake, California’s Mono Lake, Oregon’s Lake Albert and other ...

Medina Lake is only 5 percent full because of exceptional drought. Cattle grazing the greenery at a farm. Cows recently were photographed grazing in the middle of a dried-up lake in Bandera County ...

The U.S. Drought Monitor says part of California is abnormally dry or under moderate drought. ... Folsom Lake east of Sacramento was at 37% capacity, state data indicated.