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Environment | Article | Mar 15, 2013

Phoenix in the Climate Crosshairs

by William deBuys, TomDispatch

We're not the first people on the planet ever to experience climate stress.  In the overheating, increasingly parched American Southwest, which has been experiencing rising temperatures, spreading drought conditions, and record wildfires, there is an ancient history of staggering …

Food & Water | Article | Jan 21, 2013

Drought Fuels Water War Between Texas and New Mexico

by Sandra Postel, National Geographic Newswatch

As climate change alters rainfall patterns and river flows, tensions are bound to rise between states and countries that share rivers that cross their borders. In the Rio Grande Basin of the American Southwest, that future inevitability has arrived.

Environment | Article | Dec 11, 2012

Extirpation Nation: How much of the US will be habitable in 50 years?

by Dan Allen, Resilience.org

If the end is indeed near – say, within the next 50 years -- it will quite likely come in the form of extreme drought and/or nuclear contamination.  A couple key maps help us flesh out these possibilities.  …So is there something we can do about this?

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