drought

New Climate Report Shows Hazards Of Drought To Human Health In The Southwest

December 4, 2023 Like 0 Guest Contributor

By Alex Hager, KUNC The arid West is getting drier, and shrinking water supplies pose a boatload of risks to human health throughout the region. Those findings come from a new federal report on climate change that also covers…

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Months of wet weather erase drought across the Southwest

June 29, 2023 Like 0 Guest Contributor

By Alex Hager / KUNC (via AP Storyshare) A stretch of unusually wet months has erased drought across much of the Southwest. A briefing by climate experts spelled out how a snowy winter and rainy spring brought relief to a…

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Drought, Famine, Overpopulation, and a Lack of Water: What the Puebloans and the Colorado River Can Teach Us

April 19, 2023 Like 0 Austin Clinkenbeard

Examining Puebloan peoples’ responses to environmental change and growing agriculture can inform modern conservation efforts, but it still may not be enough.

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Don’t call it a ‘drought’: Climate scientist Brad Udall views Colorado River crisis as the beginning of aridification

September 8, 2022 Like 0 Guest Contributor

The generous monsoon season along the Upper Basin of the Colorado River has been a relief to those who remember recent summers suffocated by wildfire smoke in the American West. But according to Brad Udall, senior water and climate research…

Letter to the Editor

So You Want To Build A Water Park? De-Mystifying the Tri-Town Ballot Measure 6A

October 28, 2021 1 0 Michelle Mead

There seems to be a lot of confusion around a plan to include a water park and senior center into the community infrastructure. Is it worth the tax increase are all flying around.

Month in Review

Month in Review: July 2020

August 5, 2020 Like 0 editor

Month in Review The governor finally announced a statewide mask mandate. It went into effect at midnight on July 16th. He instituted it citing data that supports wearing masks, a relaxing of social distancing in Colorado that has…

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How to predict a drought

June 11, 2012 Like 0 Greg Campbell

No major rivers flow into Colorado, meaning that all of the water used here—for everything from filling the swimming pool to watering the lawn—comes from the mountain snowpack. But what if, like this year, the normally snowiest month of March…