California Drought

Record-Breaking Drought Plagues California

AP | By TRACIE CONE and RICH PEDRONCELLI | Posted 05.01.2013 | Green

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ECHO SUMMIT, Calif. (AP) — It's official, and it's not good news for thirsty Californians: January and February have been the driest on record. ...

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Stuck In Another Drought?

The Sacramento Bee | Matt Weiser | Posted 04.29.2013 | San Francisco

California is poised to shatter an all-time weather record by notching the driest January-February period in recorded history across the northern Sier...

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No Drought Relief Anytime Soon, Experts Say

AP | JOSH FUNK | Posted 02.22.2013 | Green

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OMAHA, Neb. -- Climate experts say the drought affecting more than half of the nation will persist in the Great Plains and West through the spring and...

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A Century Of Drought?

Posted 07.31.2012 | Green

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By Jesse Emspak, LiveScience Contributor: Western forests could be facing a 100-year drought, turning to scrubland by the end of the century – an...

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'We're Doing The Rain Dance As Much As We Can Out Here'

AP | By TRACIE CONE and RICH PEDRONCELLI | Posted 04.04.2012 | San Francisco

ECHO SUMMIT, Calif. -- California's Sierra Nevada snowpack measured a meager 15 inches in some places, officials announced Wednesday, bearing bad news...

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PHOTOS: Where's The Snow?

Robin Wilkey | Posted 01.06.2012 | San Francisco

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Last January, Chief of California Coorperative Snow Surveys Frank Gehrke bundled up against the elements and took the season's first snow measurement ...

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Texas Drought: 'Tough Choices' Ahead For The Thirsty State, Water Experts Say

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 12.07.2011 | Green

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AUSTIN, Texas -- On Thursday evening, Austin's local Fox News weatherman Scott Fisher gave his viewers a welcome forecast: a "big time" chance of rain...

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Some Brace For Flood, Others Celebrate The Much-Needed Water

AP | By CRISTINA SILVA | Posted 08.13.2011 | Denver

LAS VEGAS -- Communities below the snow-capped mountains of the West are bracing against the swelling rivers and flooding that come with the spring th...

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California Drought Officially Ends

AP | DON THOMPSON | Posted 05.30.2011 | Los Angeles

SODA SPRINGS, Calif. — A drought that loomed over some of California's most fertile farmland officially ended Wednesday after a winter of relent...

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Breaking The Dry Spell

latimes.com | Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.29.2011 | Los Angeles

Gov. Jerry Brown is about to make official what a winter of downpours and rising reservoir levels have already made obvious: California's drought is o...

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Hunger, Jobs and Water Wars

Eric Holt Gimenez | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

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Food aid is rolling in to the breadbasket of California. In Fresno County, the state's most productive agricultural area, a hunger crisis has been unfolding for the better part of a year.

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24-Year-Old Given Months To Live Without Insurance

Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact

As part of its Bearing Witness 2.0 project, the Huffington Post is rounding up a few of the best local stories of the day. Urangoo Baatarkhuyag, a ...

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Sean Hannity Steals From Hollywood In His Mockumentary, "The Valley Hope Forgot"

David Fiderer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

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Depression-era symbolism resonates in California, a state with 12.2 percent unemployment. So Fox News fabricated a narrative taken from the plot of Chinatown to complement Dustbowl images from The Grapes of Wrath

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Alaska's Walruses High and Dry: (1st of 5)

Giles Slade | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

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Pacific Walruses are a pagophilic (ice-loving) species whose livelihood and well-being depend on sea ice as a platform from which they dive to the ocean floor of the continental shelf to retrieve food.

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Wall Street Journal Op-Ed Pits The EPA Against Farmers

wsj.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

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California has a new endangered species on its hands in the San Joaquin Valley - farmers. Thanks to environmental regulations designed to protect the ...

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Eco Etiquette: Help, My Neighbor Is A Water-Wasting Hoser!

Jennifer Grayson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

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Because of the ongoing water shortage in my Southern California town, we're now limited to the number of days we can water our lawns. But in the neigh...

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Wild America Creeps Back

Carl Pope | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

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For eight years under George Bush, America's wilderness faced a systematic assault from the federal government.

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As Reservoirs Fall, Prices Should Rise

Robert Stavins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

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Throughout the United States, water is under-priced. Efficient use of water will take place only when the price reflects the actual additional cost of making that water available.

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Schwarzenegger Declares California Drought Emergency

AP | SAMANTHA YOUNG | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency Friday because of three years of below-average rain and snowfall i...

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Drought To Cut Off Federal Water To Calif. Farms

AP | GARANCE BURKE | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Federal water managers said Friday that they plan to cut off water, at least temporarily, to thousands of California farms ...

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Schwarzenegger: Calif. Headed For "One Of The Worst Water Crises In Its History"

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A new survey of California winter snows on Thursday showed the most populous state is facing one of the worst droughts in it...

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