Source: Chicago Tribune
Potentially huge battles over water are looming in the Great Lakes region as cities, towns and states near and far fight for access to the world's largest body of fresh surface water, all of it residing in the five Great Lakes.
Source: CBS News
An epic drought in Georgia threatens the water supply for millions. Florida doesn't have nearly enough water for its expected population boom. The Great Lakes are shrinking. Upstate New York's reservoirs have dropped to record lows.
Source: sciencenews.org
Australia is locked in a drought of drastic proportions. In recent years, rivers have reached record lows. Temperatures have spiked to record highs. Cities are running out of water. Wildfires are burning. Ecosystems are suffering.
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Georgia goes head to head with FLorida and Alabama over dwindling fresh water supplies
Source: Science: Current Issue
We compiled a comprehensive database of large wildfires in western United States forests since 1970 and compared it with hydroclimatic and land-surface data.
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This Blogger is raising awareness of the plight of the Wood Stork which is being threatened by the US Fish and Wildlife Services attempt to remove it from the endangered species list, despite that its numbers are down this year due to severe drought conditions.
Source: Science Daily
Images from NASA satellites illustrate how quickly wildfires have spread throughout Southern California. Powerful Santa Ana winds have fueled more than 10 large wildfires stretching from Santa Barbara to San Diego.
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The worst drought in 100 years has decimated Australia's wheat harvest, reducing output by a quarter. Mark Hoskinson, the third generation in a farming family to work this land, hopes his son will be the fourth. But six consecutive years of drought may force a change of plans.
Source: Science Daily
The catastrophic fires that are sweeping Southern California are consistent with what climate change models have been predicting for years, experts say, and they may be just a prelude to many more such events in the future -- as vegetation grows heavier than usual and then ignite …
Source: The L.A. Times
Here's the thing about being overrun by fire: It is like being caught in a flash flood of flame.
Source: Yahoo! News
Half a million Californians have been ordered to evacuate their homes and flee the spreading wildfires blazing across southern California Tuesday, US media reported.
Source: The New York Times
The response to the worst drought on record in the Southeast has unfolded in ultra-slow motion.
Source: The New York Times
For more than five months, the lake that provides drinking water to almost five million people here has been draining away in a withering drought. Sandy beaches have expanded into flats of orange mud. Tree stumps not seen in half a century have resurfaced.
Source: The New York Times
Everything's on the line right now, and suddenly we're all neighbors sharing one big backyard called Earth. Who's watering the lawn?
Source: nbcsandiego.com
The San Diego NBC station is streaming video of the fires down there.
Source: Christian Science Monitor
Kids in Jefferson, Ga., are shutting the tap off as they brush their teeth. Adults are doing bigger, but fewer, laundry loads. And just about everybody is glancing nervously at the puddle passing for the town's reservoir.
Source: The New York Times
The West is the fastest-growing part of the country. It's also the driest. And climate change could be making matters much, much worse.
Scott Pelley did a report last night on 60 Min. that had a very interesting quote at the end. It was made by the man who is : Tom Boatner, who after 30 years on the fire line, is now the chief of fire operations for the federal government.
Source: CBS News
60 Minutes joined up with Tom Boatner, who after 30 years on the fire line, is now the chief of fire operations for the federal government.
Source: The New York Times
It was also wrong to assume, he said, that cities could continue to grow without experiencing something akin to a religious awakening about the scarcity of water. Soon, he predicted, we would talk about our "water footprint" just as we now talk about our carbon footprint.
Source: The New York Times
Scientists sometimes refer to the effect a hotter world will have on this country's fresh water as the other water problem, because global warming more commonly evokes the specter of rising oceans submerging our great coastal cities.
Source: The Age
DUE to the drought, the State Government has no choice but to urge households to limit their water use. But by doing so, it risks financial disaster after committing almost $5 billion to new water infrastructure
Source: The New York Times
Scientists sometimes refer to the effect a hotter world will have on this country's fresh water as the other water problem, because global warming more commonly evokes the specter of rising oceans submerging our great coastal cities.
Source: The New York Times
Scientists sometimes refer to the effect a hotter world will have on this country's fresh water as the other water problem, because global warming more commonly evokes the specter of rising oceans submerging our great coastal cities.
Source: mcclatchydc.com
Alabama, Florida and Georgia lawmakers are upping the ante in a feud over water rights, a fight fueled by Atlanta's explosive growth and worries that drought-stricken regions of the Southeast are months away from running out of water.