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As our scientists predicted, climate change has reached a dangerous new stage, threatening our now-mostly-comfortable lives. One spectacular example is the horrendous drought now encompassing most of the west, from Colorado, New México, Arizona, California, Oregon and Washington—all the way up to British Columbia, where the town of Lytton hit 121° F. In addition to the coming fires in these areas, many of the great rivers of the west—the Colorado, Snake, Klamath, Columbia, even the Rio Grande—have been and will continue to be diminished by decreasing snowpack coming off the western mountains.
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California’s devastating drought and the coming fires could, over time, wipe out much of its agricultural production, which provides over a third of the nation’s vegetables and two-thirds of its fruit. Already, rural areas and cities are staking out claims for the remaining water.
1. How reduced snowpack threatens the American West.
2. How thirteen million people in the Pacific Northwest find themselves threatened by the effects of a deadly heat dome—how one develops, how it endangers lives
3. “Potentially the worst drought in 1200 years,” scientists see their studies and climate models come to life in the heatwave gripping the western U.S.
4. Video—just how dire is the drought in California? The risks and the reality
5. The shocking numbers behind the Lake Mead drought crisis—lowest levels on record since its completion in the 1930’s, with Hoover Dam power production already down 25%
6. Climate Change wreaks havoc with infrastructure: Photos of damage from the Pacific Northwest heatwave
7. Less water means less hydropower, and more fossil-fuel usage: how drought will test California’s already-stressed power grid
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