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A closeup of a painted turtle being held by a hand wearing a blue glove.

Husker research on turtles featured in Harvest Public Media

November 19, 2024

Science & Technology

A grain truck crosses the dry Platte River near Chapman, Nebraska, on Oct. 13. At the time, the U.S. Drought Monitor reported that the area around Chapman was in severe/extreme drought.

Rural Prosperity Nebraska, Oklahoma State team up to study rural resilience

August 29, 2023

Agriculture & Environment

Painted turtle

Undergrad-driven project reveals drought’s effects on painted turtles

July 3, 2023

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Plains bison

Temperature, drought influencing movement of Plains bison

April 17, 2023

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

A grain truck crosses the dry Platte River near Chapman, Nebraska, on Oct. 13. At the time, the U.S. Drought Monitor reported that the area around Chapman was in severe/extreme drought.

Nebraska-based drought center expands global outreach

January 30, 2023

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

A semi-trailer crosses the dry Platte River near Chapman, Nebraska, on Oct. 13.

Poll shows rural Nebraskans are deeply concerned about drought

December 13, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

A soybean plant grows in a dry ground in Landcaster County, NE.

Nebraska's Drought Mitigation Center continues to make global impact

May 9, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Riganti talks current drought conditions on RFD-TV

May 9, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Students enjoy the warm temps on East Campus.

No snow days: Mild, drier weather expected to continue

February 21, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Each Monday, National Drought Mitigation Center assistant director Kelly Helm Smith emails a map of the past week’s #drought tweets to a listserv of drought experts and state climatologists.

Pilot system monitors tweets for drought early warning

November 5, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Submissions like this one to the Visual Drought Atlas help show different landscapes over time, in dry, wet and normal years.

Photo submissions sought for Visual Drought Atlas

July 1, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Information from the NASA GRACE-FO satellites is being used to produce and share first-of-their-kind global maps of topsoil, root zone soil and groundwater moisture, as well as 30-, 60- and 90-day forecasts of wet and dry conditions across the continental United States, thanks to a collaboration with the Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies and National Drought Mitigation Center.

Drought center, CALMIT help launch drought-monitoring, forecast tools

April 2, 2020