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megadroughts

Rain and Heat, Fire and Snow

March 14, 2023February 6, 2023 by Rebecca Gordon

Over the last months, we Californians have experienced both historic drought and historic rainfall. The world as we knew it really is ending faster than some of us ever expected.

Categories Environment, Society Tags California drought, environmental effects of climate change, megadroughts Leave a comment

New Study on the Collapse of Mayan Civilization Should be Climate Wake-up Call

August 8, 2018 by Joe Romm

A new study finds that it was a severe and long-lasting megadrought that destroyed the great Mayan civilization a thousand years ago. But the research has ominous relevance for us today…

Categories Environment, Environment featured Tags American climate change policy, climate change environmental effects, extreme weather events, megadroughts Leave a comment

Climate Change could Push Risk of ‘Megadrought’ to 99% in American Southwest

December 15, 2020October 12, 2016 by Robert McSweeney

A megadrought spanning several decades could be almost certain to hit the American Southwest this century if greenhouse gas emissions are not curbed, a new study say

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California First

December 15, 2020August 18, 2015 by William deBuys

California in the Great Drought is once again Exhibit A, a living diorama of how the future is going to look for a lot of us.

Categories Environment Tags California drought, climate change, climate change policy, megadroughts, water conservation strategies Leave a comment

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