Sunday, July 10, 2022

'Desperate for water': drought hits Mexican industrial powerhouse

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On Monterrey's outskirts, the reservoir La Boca looks as empty as a dozen restaurants located on its recently renovated promenade. A cr...

Governor Abbott Issues Drought Disaster Declaration In July 2022

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WHEREAS, I, GREG ABBOTT, Governor of the State of Texas, do hereby certify that exceptional drought conditions pose a threat of imminent dis...

Fishing limits increased at 5 Utah lakes, reservoirs as drought continues to take its toll

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The U.S. Drought Monitor continues to list about 83% of Utah in at least extreme drought conditions, including 7.7% of the state in exceptio...

Ongoing drought conditions hurting Central Texas farms

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The current drought conditions are drying up some bodies of water and killing crops. Right now, Texas has the worst corn conditions in the c...

Tracking the California drought

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Californians are living in the state’s driest period on record. Officials have urged people to conserve as reservoirs run low and demand exc...

Portugal Battles Wildfires Amid Drought, Heat; 29 Injured

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The European Union on Sunday activated its firefighting air fleet assistance program that allows member nations to share resources to help P...

Lake Mead nears dead pool status as water levels hit another historic low

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Lake Mead's water levels this week dropped to historic lows, bringing the nation's largest reservoir less than 150 feet away from ...

Lake Mead Water Levels Dropping, Could Soon Be at Dead Pool Level

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According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, more than 20 percent of land in the western U.S. was determined to be in an "extreme of exceptio...

'Not much relief in sight': Temperatures from powerful 'heat dome' lead to record-breaking highs

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At least 10 heat records were broken in cities across the Southwest and central U.S. over the weekend, and more could fall this week amid co...
Friday, June 25, 2021

Drought now covers 75 percent of Minnesota; rain chances limited

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Recent rains have not been enough to turn around Minnesota’s worsening drought conditions. Despite chances for rain through the weekend, inc...

Western drought brings another woe: voracious grasshoppers

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A punishing drought in the U.S. West is drying up waterways, sparking wildfires and leaving farmers scrambling for water. Next up: a plague ...

‘The water is coming’: Florida Keys faces stark reality as seas rise

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Long famed for its spectacular fishing, sprawling coral reefs and literary residents such as Ernest Hemingway, the Florida Keys is now ackno...

‘It’s brutal’: Las Vegas cooks amid blazing heatwave – and it’s going to get worse

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Throughout the day and for the days that followed, temperatures in the desert city hovered close to historic highs, peaking at 116 degrees F...

California faces another drought as lake beds turn to dust – a photo essay

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Verdant hillsides losing their hue, receding reservoirs with bathtub rings of newly exposed earth, crops withering in the fields. These are...
Friday, September 11, 2020

Portland declares state of emergency as 500,000 flee wildfires across Oregon

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Oregon’s largest city reportedly declared a state of emergency Thursday as 500,000 residents across the state – more than 10% of the populat...
Thursday, July 05, 2018

The West is burning, and it’s barely July

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The heat is breaking temperature records coast-to-coast, drought covers half of the country, and — sure enough — wildfires are already envel...

Red-hot planet: All-time heat records have been set all over the world during the past week

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This article, originally published Tuesday, was updated Wednesday to add all-time heat records at Mount Washington, N.H., and Tbilisi, Georg...
Monday, July 02, 2018

Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions Set New Record

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In April of this year, the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii recorded an average concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide above 410 parts p...