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Is the drought killing California's giant sequoias?
The trees have lived for millenniums, through lightning strikes and blizzards, through fires, windstorms and severe drought, and no matter how beaten down they are, they endure, creating new crowns where old ones have broken and fallen. But today's environment could challenge this assumption, especially if temperatures continue to rise and snowpacks diminish further.
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California is fining a company that's supplied Starbucks' Bottled Water—for making the drought worse
The state says the company has been illegally tapping critically dry springs.
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Everything you need to know about California climate change in one chart
The current heat wave is part of a long, terrifying trend.
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California Wildfires That are Destroying Homes and Lives, in Pictures
More than 5,500 firefighters are struggling to contain the monster blazes that have charred more than 100,000 acres (40,470 hectares), authorities said, destroying hundreds of homes and commercial structures.
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Earthprints: Lake Powell
Where the Colorado River falls from the snow-capped Rocky Mountains into the arid U.S. Southwest, lies Lake Powell. A severe drought in recent years, combined with the tapping of the lake's water at what many consider to be an unsustainable level, has reduced its levels to only about 42 percent of its capacity, according to the U.S. space agency NASA.
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Time-lapse video illustrates Folsom Lake's dramatic water level drop
A video posted on Facebook shows the dramatic water level drop at Folsom Lake.
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Fort Bragg orders restaurants to use disposable plates, cups
Things are bad everywhere in California, but the big dry has gotten so severe in the coastal city of Fort Bragg that fancy restaurants are now being ordered to plop their filet mignons on disposable plates and pour wine into plastic cups to avoid washing dishes.
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Beavers: A Potential Missing Link in California's Water Future
The industrious rodents can offer a range of benefits for California water supplies and habitats. But they're still officially considered a pest. On California’s central coast, a region that usually receives drenching rainfall or fog for most of the year, some forests are now as arid as a desert. Streams that once ran at least at a trickle through summer have vanished in the ongoing drought, and environmentalists and fishermen fear that...
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Colonial Church Uncovered by Drought in Mexican Reservoir
A centuries-old Mexican church normally submerged in a reservoir is re-emerging amid a drought that has dropped water levels in the reservoir by 25 meters.
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Why is Indonesia's Wildfire so Hard to Put Out?
Created by humans, these fires just keep on burning due to underground stores of peat.
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California Drought Affects Winter Refuges for Migratory Birds
State's ongoing drought has left cranes, millions of other waterfowl that migrate from northern climes to winter in California with fewer places to land, and seek shelter and food
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Drought Adds Wrinkle to ‘Rain Room’ Exhibit in California
An artwork that lets visitors walk through a downpour without getting wet, a hit in New York in 2013, has taken on new meaning with its arrival at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. By Adam Nagourney.
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To save water, an underground movement to bank El Niño's rainfall
Gary Serrato watched as a tractor worked its way across a field of dried-up weeds, slicing the sandy dirt into orderly furrows. The field was being readied not for a crop but for what he hopes will be a bountiful harvest of floodwater this El Niño winter. "We're going to capture as much as we can," said Serrato, general manager of the Fresno Irrigation District.
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2015 Was The Costliest Wildfire Season Ever
The U.S. Forest Service spent almost $2 billion fighting fires in 2015.
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El Nino Drought Cuts Down on Christmas Lights in Colombia
This year's El Nino weather phenomenon is claiming an unexpected casualty in Colombia: Christmas lights. An exceptionally strong El Nino has created a severe drought that officials fear will empty reservoirs that are used to generate a good part of the South American country's electricity.
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California Wildfire Closes Highways, Spurs Evacuations
Two well-known Southern California highways shut down Saturday due to a wildfire that's burned hundreds of acres and spurred mandatory evacuations.
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Train of Storms to Drench California, Southwestern US as El Nino Takes Hold
A series of storms will bring welcome rainfall across California and other portions of the southwestern United States this week.
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US pledges $97m in emergency aid to drought-stricken Ethiopia
East African country has been especially hard hit by the seasonal warming over the Pacific Ocean – brought on by the El Niño climate phenomenon
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Global Water Shortage Risk Is Worse Than Scientists Thought
More than two-thirds of the world's population faces water scarcity for at least one month during the year.
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Ethiopia's Drought Is Worse Than During 'We Are the World' Famine
More than 10 million people are in need of food aid in Ethiopia amid a drought worse than the one that triggered the haunting 1984 famine, the U.N. has warned. Crops have withered, animals have died and water sources have dried up in parts of northeastern Ethiopia following the failure of the last two rainy seasons.
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