Climate Drought
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![a line of four houses reflected into a body of water]()
![a line of four houses reflected into a body of water]()
The little-known Nevada company making millions off the Western water shortage
A small Nevada company spent decades buying water. As the West dries up, it’s cashing out.
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The very bad math behind the Colorado River crisis
A century-old miscalculation has California and Arizona fighting over water. Again.
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![Research ecologist Ted Kennedy drives his boat along the Colorado River as the Glen Canyon Dam is seen in the background.]()
![Research ecologist Ted Kennedy drives his boat along the Colorado River as the Glen Canyon Dam is seen in the background.]()
Feds’ Colorado River choice: California’s rights or Arizona’s future?
For the Biden administration to stabilize the river, one of the two states will have to lose big.
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![Golf resorts and urban housing developments in Arizona bordering farmlands on the Gila Indian Reservation.]()
![Golf resorts and urban housing developments in Arizona bordering farmlands on the Gila Indian Reservation.]()
US turns to tribes to help Arizona survive Colorado River cuts
Authorities will pay the Gila River Indian Community and Colorado River Indian Tribes hundreds of millions of dollars to use less water from the river.
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![A mother and children walk on a flooded path.]()
![A mother and children walk on a flooded path.]()
Climate change is supercharging floods and droughts, new research shows
Rising global temperatures drove the shift in weather extremes.
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![The dried-up Colorado River Delta near the Sea of Cortez.]()
![The dried-up Colorado River Delta near the Sea of Cortez.]()
There’s a deal to save the Colorado River — if California doesn’t blow it up
The plan would cut water use on the river by roughly a quarter, drying up farms and subdivisions across the Southwest.
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![Illustration of sink water flowing through a pipe that leads to a flower waiting to be watered]()
![Illustration of sink water flowing through a pipe that leads to a flower waiting to be watered]()
A California town’s wastewater is helping it battle drought
Healdsburg recycles 350 million gallons of effluent annually and gives it away for free.
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![Fooding by the Highway 92 West in Half Moon Bay, California.]()
![Fooding by the Highway 92 West in Half Moon Bay, California.]()
Will California’s ‘atmospheric river’ storms end the drought?
Heavy rains may refill reservoirs, but they won't solve the state's broader water crisis.
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5 ways climate change made life more expensive in 2022
From grocery bills to insurance premiums, warming temperatures hit Americans' wallets hard this year.
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Salton Sea public health disaster gets a $250 million ‘shot in the arm’
The Interior Department announced new funding to restore a shrinking lake — if California saves more water.
