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Climate change to bring more drought, wildfires to region, expert warns
2013-08-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fox 5: Political leaders around San Diego will have to prepare for multiple climate change impacts in the future, beyond the expected rising sea levels, a professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography told members of the San Diego City Councils Natural Resources and Culture Committee. Among the impacts outlined by Professor Ralph Keeling Wednesday were a higher demand for water due to warmer temperatures, a mountain snowpack that melts faster, greater numbers of wildfires and migration of animal...
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Harsh Drought Is Drying Up New Mexicos Largest Reservoir
2013-07-30 17:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Atlantic Cities: Right now, El Pasos drier than an cow bone baking in the Chihuahuan Desert, and an important source of water for drinking and farming has shrunk into the sandy puddle you see below. The vast desolation of the Elephant Butte Reservoir named so not because of the presence of pachyderms, but due to a hump in the landscape vaguely shaped like a hulking animal is a weighty concern for residents of El Paso, who get about half their water from it. During flush times in the late 1980s and 90s, the...
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Parched New Mexico Reservoir Reveals Effects of Prolonged Drought
2013-07-26 18:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: U.S. officials estimated this week that the Elephant Butte reservoir in southern New Mexico is holding about 65,057 acre-feet of water, which is only about 3 percent of its capacity of 2.2 million acre-feet, largely as a result of prolonged drought conditions and unusually low spring snowmelt from nearby mountains. From the mid-1980s until 2000 the reservoir was nearly filled to capacity, as illustrated in a 1994 satellite image (top) released by NASA.
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Dry area expands in western U.S. Corn Belt -Drought Monitor
2013-07-26 01:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Abnormally dry areas expanded in the U.S. western Corn Belt, including the top crop state of Iowa, over the past week to put much of the corn crop at risk, according to a weekly drought report. The U.S. Drought Monitor, issued by state and federal climate experts, said dry conditions in the U.S. Midwest for the week ended Thursday, reached 18.94 percent, up from 7.16 percent a week earlier. Dry areas expanded in Minnesota and Iowa south to Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana. The spread of the...
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Monsoon Rains Bring Some Drought Relief to Southwest
2013-07-25 23:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Dwindling reservoirs, dusty rangeland and desiccated crops have left the Southwest in dire need of rain. Luckily, July marks the typical start of the annual monsoon season, and it has arrived in earnest this summer, bringing daily thunderstorms from New Mexico to southern California. A "drunken' weather pattern, with weather systems moving in the opposite of their typical direction, also contributed rain to parts of the Southern Plains earlier this month. Though this has provided some relief to the...
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