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Ice patches hold ancient records of the West. What happens as the climate warms? (opens the original)
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High in Wyoming’s Beartooth Mountains, scientist Sophia Wensman was taking a turn with a heavy-duty drill when something went wrong. A long section of the drill had come loose several feet underground. That’s a problem when you’re nearly 11,000 feet above sea level and there’s no hardware store around the corner. For the next half-hour, Wensman and the other researchers scraped, tugged and tried to fish the equipment out of the rocky ground. Finally, they pulled it free — and erupted in cheers.
This summer was Utah's hottest on record. What caused it? (opens the original)
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Much of the West sweltered through record-breaking heat this summer, as a strengthening El Niño, unusually warm oceans and ongoing human-caused climate change combined to push temperatures to historic levels. Nevada had its warmest August on record. Arizona tied its hottest summer, while Utah, New Mexico, and Colorado logged their hottest summers ever, according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The heat was especially pronounced across the Southwest, where daytim
Which Western rivers are most resilient to climate change? New research offers clues (opens the original)
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The study, published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE, mapped waterways across the Lower 48 to identify places that could give species more options as temperatures and water conditions change. Researchers identified a network covering roughly 35% of the contiguous U.S. that could help sustain freshwater biodiversity. That includes waterways already considered resilient and others that could benefit from restoring flows, improving habitat or reconnecting rivers. “So when we're talking about res
Sediment is shrinking reservoir storage in the West. Wildfires could make it worse (opens the original)
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Researchers with the science journal Nature modeled sediment buildup in more than 57,000 U.S. reservoirs. Collectively, they estimate the reservoirs have lost roughly 8% of their original storage capacity. But the losses are much greater in many individual reservoirs: about two out of five have lost more than one-quarter of their storage capacity. The Colorado, Columbia and Rio Grande river basins are among the hardest hit. Abigail Eckland, a researcher at Louisiana State University, New Orleans
Why the West saw so much record-breaking heat this summer (opens the original)
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Nevada had its warmest August on record. Arizona tied its hottest summer, while New Mexico, Utah and Colorado logged their hottest summers ever, according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The heat was especially pronounced across the Southwest, where daytime highs averaged 90.9 degrees this summer — 5.6 degrees above average and nearly 1 degree warmer than the previous record set in 2020. Farther north, Wyoming shattered records in July. Temperatures there averag
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