New research shows how La Niña and El Niño influence U.S. wildfires By NOAA Research The Pacific Ocean’s El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is arguably the most influential climate driver on Earth. Its cycles of warm and cool waters in the...
by Nathaniel Scharping, EOS A new approach to analyzing watersheds shows how storms occurring after a wildfire can have higher flooding risk than similar storms that occurred before a fire. Wildfires can increase flooding risks in and downstream of burned...
A 330-megawatt data center proposed in the Imperial Valley would need 750,000 gallons of water a day. Satisfying the thirst of 24 more facilities expected to open in the state by 2030 will be challenging, experts and officials say. By...
The Colorado River Basin has been sliding toward a critically dry year since January—enough to put extraordinary federal action on the table. Although there were brief hopes that late-winter storms might turn things around in February, March, or April, these...
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