Lessons from São Paulo’s Water Shortage
It’s getting harder and harder to separate nature’s role in disasters from our own, and the dire water predicament confronting São Paulo, Brazil, is no exception.
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Climate Change Poses Existential Water Risks
We often hear it said that climate change is too abstract to win the support needed to effectively combat it.
What Singapore Can Teach All Cities About Using Urban Green Infrastructure To Mitigate Megadroughts
NASA’s new report on the likelihood of megadrought in the Central and Western United States is a harsh yet timely wake-up call for cities.
Lessons from a California Drought
It has been much debated whether climate change has been at work across California – and the western United States more generally.
Dust Storms Again in the High Plains
A cold Arctic air mass swept southward across the high plains last Tuesday, its 50 mph winds dropping temperatures by 50 degrees overnight. Blowing over drought-parched farm soil, the wind created a huge dust storm in eastern Colorado, visible in striking photographs from space.
During extreme drought, farmers try for resiliency
For those who take the long view, there are bigger ideas to achieve resilience in the face of extreme weather.
A Dry Year for Honey
When you think about the necessity of water in agriculture, fruit trees, row crops, and cattle probably come to mind, but you might not think about bees.
Is adaptation to climate change really feasible?
The climate change denialists have pretty much given up on the idea that there is no climate change or that it is good for us. So, they’re down to arguing that it won’t be that bad and we should just adapt.
The Flowers of August
It’s called “whiplash weather” and that is certainly what’s happened where I live…the rains have largely stopped. August has been dry…So, should I cheer or jeer the wildflowers?
Your odds just shortened – Aussie Heatwaves
I’m sure you all remember the new colour that had to be created by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology for the weather maps when they maxed out above 50oC
Phoenix in the Climate Crosshairs
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 mega-droughts, events far worse than the infamous “dust bowl” of the 1930s, the seven-year drought that devastated America’s prairie lands. That may have been “the worst prolonged environmental disaster recorded for the country,” but historically speaking it was a “mere dry spell” compared to some past mega-droughts that lasted &ddquo;centuries to millennia.”
Drought Fuels Water War Between Texas and New Mexico
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.