drought
Abysmally low levels at Lake Mead amid drought
July 13, 2022The largest U.S. reservoir has shrunken to a record low amid a punishing drought and the demands of 40 million people in seven states.
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How a megadrought is leaving one Arizona neighborhood with no water
March 10, 2022Thanks to Colorado River cuts, hundreds of residents on the outskirts of Phoenix are “the canary in the coal mine.”
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Will partisan politics squelch the strongest water advocate in Southern California?
June 4, 2021Climate change remains a thing and Los Angeles remains governed, as always, with intense political maneuverings surrounding that most vital elixir of them all—water.
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Fighting for breath by the dying Salton Sea
December 19, 2017The children of North Shore are the proverbial canaries in the coal mine, whose sudden illnesses warn of a greater disaster to come.
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The Panoche Hills: the strange sere bones of an ancient landscape
October 13, 2015A reflection on the dry landscape and living history of the Panoche Hills: It is austere, it is dry, it is dramatically beautiful.
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