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Parched Earth soaks up water, slowing sea level rise
2016-02-12 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: As glaciers melt due to climate change, the increasingly hot and parched Earth is absorbing some of that water inland, slowing sea level rise, NASA experts said Thursday. Satellite measurements over the past decade show for the first time that the Earth's continents have soaked up and stored an extra 3.2 trillion tons of water in soils, lakes and underground aquifers, the experts said in a study in the journal Science. This has temporarily slowed the rate of sea level rise by about 20 percent,...
The Parched West: California Wants to Store Water for Farmers, but Struggles Over How to Do It
2015-12-21 12:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Californians suffering through the fourth year of a punishing drought have a new worry. With fierce storms predicted for the winter, they are bracing for floods by stockpiling sandbags and rushing to buy insurance. Yet those who need water the most, farmers, are in a poor position to take advantage of any deluge. If El Nio floods pour into the Central Valley, the farmers will inevitably watch millions of gallons of water flow to the sea. This state, forward-looking on other environmental issues,...
Why climate change could leave Horn of Africa parched
2015-10-10 14:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Monitor: Climate change is drying out the Horn of Africa at an alarming rate, say scientists. Paleoclimatologists examined past moisture trends and found that the current drying trend is extreme, according to a paper published Friday in the journal Science Advances. What "our paleoclimate records tell us is that this drying is really unusual in the context of the last 2,000 years," says study lead author Jessica Tierney, a paleoclimatologist at the University of Arizona. "As greenhouse gases rise,...
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Flow of Cheap Hydroelectricity Slows in Parched West
2015-08-02 16:46:01| Energy - Topix.net
As rivers and reservoirs shrink across the parched West, cheap sources of water-generated electricity are starting to dry up. Historically low flows on the McKenzie River that snakes west of Oregon's snow-starved Cascades, for example, forced the closure of a hydroelectric generation turbine at the Trail Bridge dam in early July.
Parched West: Dry Days Bring a Ferocious Start to the Fire Season
2015-08-02 00:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Another summer of record-breaking drought and heat has seized the West, setting off costly and destructive wildfires from Southern California, where a single blaze burned more than 30,000 acres of national forest east of Los Angeles, to Montana, where a fast-moving fire in Glacier National Park recently forced tourists to flee hotels, campgrounds and vehicles. No measurable rain has fallen here in Walla Walla since May. Temperatures have broken decades-old records. And, though known for soaking...