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Tag: drought

Alaska on fire: Thousands of lightning strikes and a warming climate...

Rick Thoman, University of Alaska Fairbanks Alaska is on pace for another historic wildfire year, with its fastest start...

A water strategy for the parched West: Have cities pay farmers...

Robert Glennon, University of Arizona “Are you going to run out of water?” is the first question people ask...

Trees aren’t a climate change cure-all – 2 new studies on...

William R.L. Anderegg, University of Utah When people talk about ways to slow climate change, they often mention trees,...

Grim 2022 drought outlook for Western US offers warnings for the...

Imtiaz Rangwala, University of Colorado Boulder Much of the western U.S. has been in the grip of an unrelenting...

The Southwest is on fire, iconic deserts and towns are at...

Molly Hunter, University of Arizona New Mexico and Arizona are facing a dangerously early fire season. It has left...

US Climate risks are rising – a scientist looks at the...

Erica A.H. Smithwick, Penn State When I was a young researcher studying how forested ecosystems recover from wildfire, I...

Cloud seeding might not be as promising as drought-troubled states hope

William R. Cotton, Colorado State University Forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued their U.S. spring outlook...

Beavers offer lessons about managing water in a changing climate, whether...

Christine E. Hatch, UMass Amherst It’s no accident that both the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the California Institute...

EXPLORING NATURE

Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...

Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison