Tag: drought
Human-caused climate change severely exposes the US national parks
Patrick Gonzalez, University of California, Berkeley
Human-caused climate change is disrupting ecosystems and people’s lives around the world. It is melting glaciers, increasing wildfires, and...
Farmers are drawing groundwater from the giant Ogallala Aquifer faster than...
Char Miller, Pomona College
Every summer the U.S. Central Plains go dry, leading farmers to tap into groundwater to irrigate sorghum, soy, cotton, wheat and...
Does cloud seeding work? Scientists watch ice crystals grow inside clouds...
Jeffrey French, University of Wyoming and Sarah Tessendorf, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Water is a valuable resource that affects nearly all aspects of life...
Climate change is shrinking the Colorado River
Brad Udall, Colorado State University and Jonathan Overpeck, University of Arizona
The nation’s two largest reservoirs, Lake Mead on the Arizona/Nevada border and Lake Powell...
How much has global warming worsened California’s drought? Now…
How much has global warming worsened California's drought? Now we have a number
Park Williams, Columbia University
With each passing year, human-caused global warming bullies California...
In a water-scarce West of the future, who will be hit...
Lauren Foster
, Colorado School of Mines
This article is part of The Conversation’s series on drought. You can read the rest of the series here.
Despite...
How climate change is making California’s epic drought worse
Catherine Gautier, University of California, Santa Barbara
This article is part of The Conversation’s series on drought. You can read the rest of the series...
How to save California’s precious groundwater, the ‘dark matter’ of our...
Graham Fogg, University of California, Davis
As California suffers its fourth year of drought, much of the attention is focused on the state’s groundwater –...
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
