Skip to main content LOADING... Loading ... AddThis Button BEGIN Text Size This is the code for the Facebook Share button without counter that pulls from the Graph API AddThis Button END February 12, 2015 RELEASE 15-020 NASA Study Finds Carbon Emissions Could Dramatically Increase Risk of U.S. Megadroughts [image-36] 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, according to a new NASA study. [image-51] The study, published Thursday in the journal Science Advances, is based on projections from several climate models, including one sponsored by NASA. The research found continued increases in human-produced greenhouse gas emissions drives up the risk of severe droughts i...