Drifting Toward Disaster: The (Second) Rio Grande
February 14th, 2023
Via Inside Climate News, commentary on how a?century of enterprise brought the Rio Grande to its brink and now authorities are ?praying for a hurricane? as reservoirs dwindle and populations boom on both sides of the Mexico-Texas border: This summer, the Rio Grande?dried up in places that it never had before. For more than 100 […]
Read more »The Rio Grande/R?o Bravo Basin: old disputes in a new century
September 28th, 2022
Via the Global Water Forum, an article on the lingering disputes over the?Rio Grande and R?o Bravo basin: The Rio Grande River, known in Mexico as the R?o Bravo, is one of the principal rivers in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Originating in Colorado in the U.S., the Rio Grande flows over 3,000 […]
Read more »The Drying of the Colorado and Rio Grande Rivers
September 23rd, 2022
Via Yale Climate Connections, a look at the impact of the historic drought plaguing two of North America?s threatened rivers: National TV, cable, and other mass media outlets have been brimming with news that much of the American West is into its longest drought in 1,200 years. What does this mean for some of the […]
Read more »Rio Grande Runs Dry In Albuquerque For First Time In 40 Years
July 23rd, 2022
Via the Washington Post, an article on the?Rio Grande river which has run dry in Albuquerque for the first time in 40 years: A stretch of the Rio Grande near Albuquerque that supplies farmers with water and a habitat for an array of aquatic life is drying ? an unsettling sighting of climate change?s effects […]
Read more »The Vanishing Rio Grande
June 25th, 2022
Via Yale e360, a report on the Rio Grande, which has long been impacted by withdrawals for agriculture and other uses, is now struggling with rising temperatures and an unprecedented drought: Hiking through the emerald green canopy of the bosque,?or riverside cottonwood forest, near downtown Albuquerque, Tricia Snyder, an advocate for WildEarth Guardians, believes zero […]
Read more »Expanding Drought Leaves Western U.S. Scrambling For Water
April 19th, 2022
Via The Columbian, an article on how the expanding drought is leaving the western U.S. scrambling for water: Tumbleweeds drift along the Rio Grande as sand bars within its banks widen. Smoke from distant wildfires and dust kicked up by intense spring winds fill the valley, exacerbating the feeling of distress that is beginning to […]
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