Results for keyword: drought
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Dust takes a toll
The increasing clouds of dust in the West are affecting the region’s health, snow cover, rainfall and even climate.
by Melanie Lenart, Jul 18, 2010 -
Climate change: Check the data yourself
A collaborative online effort allows both skeptics and believers to study and compare the scientific data regarding climate change.
by Debra Peters and William deBuys, Jul 13, 2010 -
The San Francisco Peaks will never be the same
An abandoned campfire is apparently to blame for the inferno now consuming the mountains outside Flagstaff, Ariz.
by Robyn Slayton-Martin, Jun 29, 2010 -
It takes a district: Utah landowners control groundwater use
In southern Utah's Escalante Valley, local landowners will form a water district to save their declining aquifer.
by Jamie Hansen, May 09, 2010 -
Warning: Water policy faces an age of limits
New water projects and giant pipelines will do nothing to solve the West's drought and its increasing water shortage.
by Dan McCool, Apr 22, 2010 -
Breakdown
California's Westlands irrigation district wants to blame the tiny and endangered Delta smelt for its water troubles, but the real culprit is simply long-term drought.
by Matt Jenkins, Jan 11, 2010 -
Western water in the age of climate change
In Dead Pool: Lake Powell, Global Warming, and the Future of Water in the West, James Lawrence Powell examines the impact of climate change on the West’s future.
by Kyle Boelte, May 26, 2009 -
When neighbors become cops
As mandatory water conservation becomes more common in the West, many communities are asking residents to report water-wasters.
by Jonathan Parkinson, May 21, 2009 -
Environmentalists must learn to compromise
Environmentalists opposed to desalination plants are indulging in wishful thinking, because conservation is not enough to provide the arid West with water during a drought.
by Jonathan Parkinson, Mar 31, 2009 -
Shifting sands in Navajoland
On the drought-stricken Navajo Nation, scientist Margaret Hiza Redsteer studies the movement of sand dunes.
by Michelle Nijhuis, Jun 23, 2008






