NASA forecasts megadroughts in U.S.(2:39) NASA forecasts megadroughts in U.S. (2:39) NASA scientists studied past droughts and climate models incorporating soil moisture data to estimate future drought risk. According to NASA’s study, “droughts in the U.S. Southwest and Central Plains during the last half of this century could be drier and longer than drought conditions seen in those regions in the last 1,000 years.” (NASA Goddard via YouTube) The long and severe drought in the U.S. Southwest pales in comparison with what’s coming: a “megadrought” that will grip that region and the central plains later this century and probably stay there for decades, a new study says. Thirty-five years from now, if the current pace of climate change continues unabated, those areas of the country will experience a weather shift that will linger for as long as three decades, according to the study, released Thursday. Researchers from NASA and […]