August 12, 2012--Hundred-year forecast: Drought (New York Times)
By many measurements, this summer’s drought is one for the record books. But so was last year’s drought in the South Central states. And it has been only a decade since an extreme five-year drought hit...
View ArticleJune 13, 2013--Satellite data will be essential to future of groundwater,...
New satellite imagery reveals that several areas across the United States are all but certain to suffer water-related catastrophes, including extreme flooding, drought and groundwater depletion. The...
View ArticleAugust 4, 2013--Climate change, water issues attract presidential attention...
References to water issues saturated President Barack Obama's speech in late June about his climate change initiative. The announcement referred to the effects of global warming on water availability,...
View ArticleSeptember 14, 2013--Once again, Colorado floods take a historic toll (Denver...
After months of warnings about drought and tinder-dry forests ready to blow up in flame, the idea that rains would drop as much water over two or three days as falls in a typical year seemed fanciful...
View ArticleSeptember 14, 2013--Colorado floods: A by-the-numbers look at all that water...
The torrential rain and floods swamping vast swaths of Colorado have been described as "biblical" and bona fide 100-year storms, the kind that statistically are predicted just once a century. The...
View ArticleSeptember 15, 2013--Colorado floods created by hot September, long monsoon...
Colorado's monsoon rain season almost always ends by August. This year it lingered into September. Its Front Range cities almost never swelter through 97-degree days in September. This year they did,...
View ArticleSeptember 15, 2013--What caused deadly Colorado floods? (USA Today)
Colorado is no stranger to devastating and deadly flash floods, due to a lethal combination of geography and meteorology. When unusually heavy rain falls across the region, narrow canyons and steep...
View ArticleSeptember 16, 2013--Floods destroy or damage more than 50 bridges in Colorado...
Thirty bridges have been reported destroyed and another 20 seriously damaged in flood-ravaged areas of Colorado, a state transportation official said Sunday. The Colorado Department of Transportation,...
View ArticleNovember 20, 2013--Will the farm bill leave private lands conservation...
Right now, following the farm bill’s progress seems a lot like watching corn grow. The bill is due for reauthorization and the senators and representatives charged with finding a compromise are under...
View ArticleDecember 5, 2013--Report: Society's water safety net is fraying (Circle of Blue)
It is no exaggeration to claim that aquifers, water-saturated layers of subterranean sediment, have allowed agriculture, and thus modern life in our house of 7 billion, to prosper. America's Great...
View ArticleJanuary 1, 2014--Online water resources tool sheds light on U.S. waterway...
A new online fact sheet published by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) provides one-stop information on the organization's data sources for waterways across the United States. The database comprises...
View ArticleMarch 6, 2014--New government report warns of 'cascading system failures'...
From roads and bridges to power plants and gas pipelines, American infrastructure is vulnerable to the effects of climate change, according to a pair of government reports released Thursday. he reports...
View ArticleSeptember 22, 2014--Durango digs out from deluge (Durango Herald)
The flash flood watch for Durango was lifted at 9 a.m. However a flash flood advisory was put in place for Archuleta County until 11:30 a.m. The city of Durango awoke Sunday morning to face the...
View ArticleNovember 10, 2014--USGS launches a billion-dollar initiative to map the West...
LIDAR, or Light Detection and Ranging, uses lasers to create intricate three-dimensional maps in places where bad weather or thick vegetation hampered traditional aerial mapping.read more
View ArticleNovember 5, 2014--Extreme weather 'will cost lives and billions of pounds of...
Lives could be lost and billions of pounds of damage caused to households and businesses as a result of extreme weather, a senior climate researcher has warned, as Britain is about to experience its...
View ArticleJanuary 19, 2015--California drought could end with storms known as...
California's drought crept in slowly, but it could endwith a torrent of winter storms that stream across the Pacific, dumping much of the year's rain and snow in a few fast-moving and potentially...
View ArticleJanuary 30, 2015--In major shift, Obama administration will plan for rising...
President Obama will issue an executive order Friday directing federal agencies–as well as state and local governments drawing on federal funds–to adopt stricter building and siting standards to...
View ArticleMarch 5, 2015--Flood and drought risk to cities on rise even with no climate...
A heads-up to New York, Baltimore, Houston and Miami: a new study suggests that these metropolitan areas and others will increase their exposure to floods even in the absence of climate change,...
View ArticleJuly 13, 2016--National Weather Service creates new office devoted to water...
In recognizing the vast and evolving water needs for millions of Americans, NOAA’s National Weather Service this week created a new office dedicated to understanding and predicting water dynamics,...
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