Things categorized as 'drought'
Posted on January 4th by Tom Yulsman.
As Colorado snowpack suffers, La Niña could persist into summer
According to the latest forecast from the Climate Prediction Center, issued yesterday, the La Niña conditions that ...
Posted on January 20th by Tom Yulsman.
The Colorado River near Moab, Utah. New research suggests that dust falling on snow in the mountains where the river is born is robbing it of enough water to serve ...
Posted on January 19th by Tom Yulsman.
The Green River, seen here at the mouth of Horseshoe Canyon in Utah, is a major tributary of the Colorado. The two rivers come together about xx miles as the ...
Posted on October 16th by Tom Yulsman.
Eleven years of low flows and growing consumption are draining the reservoir. Meanwhile, much of the rest of the West is slowly aridifying too.
UPDATE, SUNDAY 10/17/10: AS OF ABOUT 11 ...
Posted on September 19th by Tom Yulsman.
Experts worry that drought could worsen in Southwest, raising fears of water shortages and wildfire
With data acquired by satellite, this map depicts La Niña conditions in tones of blue spreading ...
Posted on August 19th by Tom Yulsman.
This image, based on data from NASA's MODIS instrument on the Terra satellite, shows Earth's plant productivity in 2003. Regions of increased productivity are shown in green, with decreased ...
Posted on August 4th by Tom Yulsman.
But a new record low for the year is now considered unlikely
The linear rate of decline of Arctic sea ice in July between 1979 and 2010 is now 6.4 ...
Posted on August 2nd by Tom Yulsman.
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Video snippets from Russia Today of the fires triggered by unprecedented heat and drought in Central Russia.
In the past few weeks, a wave of new developments has flushed the ...
Posted on January 31st by Tom Yulsman.
The climate bats last...
As an international media storm continues to rage over allegations of fraud by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and its director, Rahendra K. Pachauri, ...
Posted on January 27th by Tom Yulsman.
While a patently false prediction by the IPCC about Himalayan Glaciers reverberates politically, glaciers worldwide continue to lose mass at a rapid rate. Meanwhile, a multi-year drought tightens its ...
Posted on April 20th by Tom Yulsman.
The Colorado River flows through eastern Utah near Moab. A new study suggests use of the river water is unsustainable. (Photo: Tom Yulsman)
John Fleck writes about a new study ...
Posted on April 18th by Tom Yulsman.
Decreasing flow and unrelenting demand on the Colorado River
The solid lines in the graphs above show historical water use in the Colorado River system. (Source: When will Lake Mead ...
Posted on April 18th by Tom Yulsman.
The level of Lake Mead has dropped significantly, as the white "bathtub ring" in this photo demonstrates. (Photo: Chris M. Richards, via Flickr Creative Commons)
In his blog today, ...
Posted on March 15th by Tom Yulsman.
Dec '08 - Feb 09 was near average in the U.S., but very warm globally
The National Climatic Data Center is reporting that the combined global land and ocean surface ...
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