Impacts Pueblos in New Mexico turn to goats for fire management As climate change exposes wildfire risks, tribes by the Rio Grande experiment with a four-legged technique to nibble away fuels.
www.nytimes.com In parched Southwest, warm spring renews threat of ‘megadrought’ Rapid melting this year showed that good snowpack doesn’t necessarily translate into full reservoirs.
Newsletter www.nytimes.com In parched Southwest, warm spring renews threat of ‘megadrought’ The Southwest has been mired in drought for most of the past two decades. The heat and dryness, made worse by climate change, have been so persistent that some researchers say the region is now caught up in a megadrought
Impacts www.nytimes.com In a warming West, the Rio Grande is drying up Even in a good year, much of the Rio Grande is diverted for irrigation. But it’s only May, and the river is already turning to sand.
