Citizen-Times: The nation's most recent, long-term climate outlook projects a gloomy future: extended droughts, fiercer wildfires, heavier rains and rising sea levels.
The Southeast, including the Blue Ridge mountains, would be spared the same spikes in temperature likely in the Southwest and other regions, but Western North Carolina's climate is still changing rapidly, according to the National Climate Assessment report.
Over the past four years, researchers and experts teaming up at Asheville's National...