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Drought in Western U.S. Has Caused Land to Rise, Researchers Say
2014-08-22 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: The western U.S. has lost so much water during the ongoing severe drought that the land has sprung up by as much as 15 millimeters (0.6 inches), according to a study in the journal Science. Water at the surface of the earth typically weighs down the land, but the region has lost enough water that the tectonic plate underlying the western U.S. has undergone rapid uplift, much like an uncoiling spring, researchers explain. California's water deficit over the past 18 months has caused some of its mountain...
Drought Conditions in Western US were Once Much Worse than Anything in the Past Century
2014-05-01 21:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: A study of climate data taken from trees in the Western US reveals levels of drought that were significantly worse than anything experienced in the past century. The 1930s drought that triggered The Dust Bowl, considered the worst US drought that century, was barely strong enough to make the list of worst droughts, according to scientists at Brigham Young University in Utah, who analyzed the state's climate record back to 1429. "We're conservatively estimating the severity of these droughts...
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Drought Intensifies in Western U.S
2014-02-03 18:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: In recent days California has announced its most severe water restrictions ever as drought continues to hit the state. Scientists say the regions rainfall has been declining over the years and the consequences are serious. January is the month when Californians put on their rain jackets--but not this year. Its the month which is usually wettest in the western U.S., when rivers and reservoirs are replenished: this year there was virtually no rain through January in much of the region, following...
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Western U.S. drought puts big strain on reservoirs
2014-01-31 21:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBS News: Satellite photos show the Colorado River, which feeds Nevada's Lake Mead, is drying up, meaning the lake is rapidly shrinking. The lake provides water for 20 million people in southern Nevada, southern California and Arizona -- and it's lost 4 trillion gallons of water since 2000. Ben Tracy reports.
Western drought intensifies, leads to deadly wildfires
2013-06-15 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: A record-breaking heat wave intensified drought conditions in much of the West during the past week, with 72 percent of the land area in the 10 Western states now in drought conditions, according to the latest update to the U.S. Drought Monitor. The worst impacts of the drought are concentrated in the Southwest: New Mexico, Texas, Southern Colorado and the western parts of Kansas, Oklahoma and Nebraska all contain land that is under extreme or exceptional drought. The hot weather -- Denver had...
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