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A Painful Deadline Nears as Colorado River Reservoirs Run Critically Low

Jul 21, 2022 adarsht403

States in the Colorado River basin are scrambling to propose steep cuts in the water they’ll use from the river…

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Opinion | I’m a Scientist in California. Drought Is Worse Than We Thought.

Apr 4, 2022 adarsht403

Outside my lab near Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, new animal tracks are on the snow…

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Fires, Then Floods: Risk of Deadly Climate Combination Rises

Apr 1, 2022 adarsht403

Global warming is greatly increasing the risk that extreme wildfires in the American West are followed by heavy rainfall, a…

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Expecting the Western Drought to End Soon? Not Likely, Forecasters Say.

Feb 17, 2022 adarsht403

Dry conditions across the West that have dashed hopes for a respite from relentless drought are expected to continue across…

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How Bad Is the Western Drought? Worst in 12 Centuries, Study Finds

Feb 14, 2022 adarsht403

ALBUQUERQUE — The megadrought in the American Southwest has become so severe that it’s now the driest two decades in…

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Biden Administration Announces Plan to Spend Billions to Prevent Wildfires

Jan 19, 2022 adarsht403

After a year that included one of the largest wildfires in California history and ended with an unseasonably late blaze…

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Health Risks of Smoke and Ozone Rise in the West as Wildfires Worsen

Jan 5, 2022 adarsht403

The researchers also found a connection between the pollution and patterns of atmospheric “ridging,” the development of stagnant zones of…

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