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Early season snowmelt could bring the West summer water scarcity

Climate change is expediting spring snowmelt and replacing snow with rainfall in the Mountain West — making an already arid region increasingly at risk of summer water scarcity, a new study has found.

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California's snowpack nears decade high. What's it mean to drought?

Last year, we started 2022 with a similar bounty — and then ended the snow season way, way, way below normal.
The western U.S. might be seeing its last snowy winters

The western U.S. might be seeing its last snowy winters

By the end of the century, most years in the region could be nearly snowless.
Richard Parker: Texas could have kept the lights on
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Richard Parker: Texas could have kept the lights on

Republicans are blaming renewable energy, when it’s the state’s powerful utilities that failed to prepare for the worst.
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After wildfires, mourning the loss of California's giants
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After wildfires, mourning the loss of California's giants

For one reporter, documenting the destruction of redwoods and sequoias was a heartbreaking assignment.
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