Green Car Congress
JUNE 10, 2022
The ongoing severe drought in the Colorado River Basin has led to the river flowing at 84% of its historic average flow. The new study used tree-ring data and other climate records to identify a drought period unmatched in severity by the current drought or other ancient droughts. Gangopadhyay, S., Woodhouse, C. McCabe, G. Routson, C.
Green Car Congress
JULY 24, 2014
A new satellite study finds more than 75% of the water loss in the drought-stricken Colorado River Basin since late 2004 came from underground resources. The Colorado River Basin (black outline) supplies water to about 40 million people in seven states. Credit: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Click to enlarge. —Jay Famiglietti.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 23, 2012
The Colorado River Basin encompasses much of the American West, covering parts of seven US states and two states in Mexico. It also comes on the heels of a major study of the Colorado River Basin by the US Department of Interior that projected longer and more severe droughts by 2060, and a 9% decline in the Colorado’s flows.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 30, 2010
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and The University of Colorado’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) have formed a new collaborative research center dedicated to the study of the Sun’s effect on Earth’s climate. —Peter Pilewskie.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 13, 2012
A newly released study—authorized by Congress and jointly funded and prepared by the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation and the seven Colorado River Basin states— projects water supply and demand imbalances throughout the Colorado River Basin and adjacent areas over the next 50 years.
Green Car Congress
JULY 21, 2011
A recent increase in the abundance of particles high in the atmosphere has offset about a third of the current climate warming influence of CO 2 change during the past decade, according to a new study led by NOAA and published in the online edition of Science. —John Daniel.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 25, 2011
Projected median temperature change in °F (of 112 climate projections) over the Western United States, 2070–2099 relative to 1950–1979. Specific projections include: Projected median percentage precipitation change (of 112 climate projections) over the Western United States, 2070–2099 relative to 1950–1979. Source: DOI.
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