The Colorado River’s reservoirs have diminished to the point that significant cuts to the water supplied to the seven states that rely on it will be necessary next year, a federal official warned Tuesday. Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Camille Calimlim Touton told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee maintaining “critical levels” at the largest […]
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Drought turning Lake Mead into a ‘dead pool’
Sitting on the Arizona-Nevada border near Las Vegas, Lake Mead – formed by the creation of the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River – is the largest reservoir in the United States and provides water to 25 million people across three states and Mexico. Here, the stunning scale of a drought in the American west […]
America Seeing Worst Drought In Over 1200 Years
The extreme heat and dry conditions of the past few years pushed what was already an epic, decades-long drought in the American West into a historic disaster that bears the unmistakable fingerprints of climate change. The long-running drought, which has persisted since 2000, can now be considered the driest 22-year period of the past […]
Blizzard Warning Issued For Hawaii, 12 Inches Expected
The National Weather Service has issued a blizzard warning until Sunday morning on the Big Island of Hawaii. The warning remains in effect from 6 p.m. Friday until 6 a.m. Sunday as up to 12 inches or more of snow is expected on the island. NWS also warns residents to stay indoors as forecasters predict […]
10 Dead, Dozens Still Missing In Tennessee Floods
Ten people were dead and more than 30 were missing as heavy flooding hit parts of Tennessee on Saturday, a sheriff’s official said. Two of the dead appeared to be twin toddlers who were swept away from their father, Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis told NBC affiliate WSMV in Nashville. He said the siblings’ bodies […]
Hot Week In History Leads To Wildfires Across West
Last week featured one of the worst June heat waves in decades across the West, shattering hundreds of daily records, as well as several all-time hottest temperatures recorded for the month. Death Valley soared to a blistering 128 degrees, and Denver saw a rare hat trick of three 100-degree days in a row. Tucson saw […]
Water Crisis: Driest Year On Record In Over 120 Years
The water crisis along the California-Oregon border went from dire to catastrophic this week as federal regulators shut off irrigation water to farmers from a critical reservoir and said they would not send extra water to dying salmon downstream or to a half-dozen wildlife refuges that harbor millions of migrating birds each year. In what […]
Biden Working With China On Climate Change Policies
They have feuded recently over Hong Kong, the treatment the Uighur community and future of Taiwan, but the U.S. and China can agree on one thing — the fight against climate change. Ahead of President Joe Biden’s summit of world leaders to address the issue this week, the world’s two biggest greenhouse gas emitters “committed […]
America Officially Rejoins Paris Climate Agreement
The U.S. on Friday officially rejoined the Paris Agreement after former President Trump withdrew from the deal. On his first day in office, President Biden signed an executive order that set the country on track to rejoin the global accord, but it took 30 days for the country to formally reenter. Special Envoy for Climate […]
Bill Gates Predicts Next Major Crisis Facing Americans
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates famously predicted an infectious virus was likely to kill millions of people across the globe five years before COVID-19 did just that. “If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, it’s most likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war,” Gates said during a […]
400 Whales Dead, Hundreds More Washing Ashore
A rescue operation is underway to save any surviving pilot whales among the 500 or so stranded along the coast of the Australian island of Tasmania on Wednesday. “Our focus is on those animals that are still alive,” Nic Deka, regional manager for Tasmania’s Parks and Wildlife Service, told a press conference. “The mortality has […]
California Hiker Dies Due To Record High Heat Wave
Authorities in Los Angeles County shut down trails in the Santa Monica Mountains after a woman died while hiking as a record-setting heatwave and wildfires scorched California. The woman, whose name wasn’t released yet, had been hiking with a friend Saturday afternoon on a trail near the city of Calabasas when she started feeling sick […]