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Could water markets help solve the American West's water crisis?
2014-11-01 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vox: It's no secret that the American West is facing a severe water crisis. The region -- home to over 60 million people and a huge chunk of US agriculture -- is in its 15th year of drought. Texas has suffered more than $25 billion in damages so far. Las Vegas is worried about plummeting water levels in Lake Mead. California has received so little rain that farmers are pillaging the state's hard-to-replenish groundwater aquifers at a shocking rate: Maps of dry season (SeptemberNovember) total water...
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What the West's Ancient Droughts Say About Its Future
2014-02-14 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: A millennium agojust yesterday, in geologic timeNative Americans waited all winter for rains that never came. They waited the next winter and the next. Then the marshes of their sacred San Francisco Bay turned from cattails to salt grass. Fishing declined and the Native Americans could no longer rely on the bounty of the bay. Finally, they left, hungry and thirsty, in search of water. Now, as modern Californians hope for fierce storms to break a dangerous dry spell, the questions arise: Is the...
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Is Wests Dry Spell Really a Megadrought?
2013-12-13 23:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The drought that has been afflicting most of the Western states for the past 13 years may be a "megadrought,' and the likelihood is high that this century could see a multi-decade dry spell like nothing else seen over the past 1,000 years, according to research presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting on Wednesday and Thursday. Today, drought or abnormally dry conditions are affecting every state west of the Mississippi River and many on the East Coast, with much of the Southwest...
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The Dark Dide of the West's Fossil Fuel Boom
2013-12-13 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Over the last decade, oil and natural gas production has been booming out West, in states like North Dakota, Colorado, and Montana. That's brought plenty of benefits to local communities: Good-paying jobs, rising incomes, new businesses, a tidal wave of fresh tax revenue. It's also brought a fair share of problems. Towns around the oil-rich Bakken formation in North Dakota, for instance, have been grappling with higher crime rates, heavy truck traffic and overcrowded schools. What's more, there's...
Penn West's Shares Drop To Lowest Since 2008
2013-11-07 15:40:00| OGI
Penn West called 2014 a critical transition year.