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Every Drop Counts In America’s River Crisis
July 2nd, 2024

Via National Geographic, a look at the Rio Grande and Colorado Rivers, two of the most threatened rivers in the U.S.: Our nation’s most vital waterways are drying up at an alarming rate due to global warming, increased human water use, and other man-made impacts. Nowhere is this crisis seen as dramatically than in the […]

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Hoping For A Miracle To Save The Ogallala Aquifer? Prepare The New Dust Bowl.
July 2nd, 2024

Via the Kansas Reflector, an article on the urgent challenges facing the Ogallala Aquifer: In the summer of 1894, a curious railway car plied the tracks of western Kansas, a chemical soup wafting to a sky ruled by a demon sun and chastened by moisture-devouring winds. At the helm of this experiment on wheels, owned […]

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Was Iranian President Raisi A Martyr To Climate Change?
July 1st, 2024

Via Foreign Policy in Focus, commentary on Iran’s struggle to address its water shortage: Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi died on May 19 while returning from a ceremony to inaugurate a hydropower project in a remote corner of northwestern Iran. Why would a head of state brave the hazardous conditions of unseasonal blizzards in a mountainous […]

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