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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 […]
Read more »A River Used To Run Through It: Handling A Dwindling Rio Grande
January 12th, 2021
Via The Guardian, a report on how the Rio Grande used to flow freely, but now in Las Cruces, humans, fish and plants are vying for water in the arid landscape: Imagine the world without its most famous rivers: Egypt without the Nile, or London without the Thames. In Las Cruces, New Mexico, residents don’t have […]
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