Millions of acres of national forest in Northern California are being closed because of dangerous fire conditions that already have sent a score of blazes raging through the area and destroyed hundreds of homes.
U.S. officials on Monday declared the first-ever water shortage from a river that serves 40 million people in the West, triggering cuts to some Arizona farmers next year amid a gripping drought.
Remnants of Fred entered the lower Gulf of Mexico late Saturday amid forecasts it would regain tropical cyclone strength Sunday as it moves toward the northern U.S. Gulf Coast.
This week s USDA report has forecast global wheat stocks to fall for a second year in 2021-22, while the stocks held by the eight major exporters continue to fall as a percent of the total estimated stocks.