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A new study suggests a major ocean current in the Atlantic Ocean is slowing down, a shift researchers say could influence weather patterns around the world, including the intensity of storms affecting California.

Researchers have been examining changes in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, known as the AMOC, a system of ocean currents that carries warm, salty water north toward Greenland and moves colder water south. The current plays a key role in redistributing heat across the globe.

Farmers and ranchers in a rural Mendocino County valley have long opposed the planned removal of two local dams because it would reduce their summer irrigation supply.

Over the past year, the pear and grape growers, cattle ranchers and their allies successfully turned their local fight into a national conservative cause, folded into President Donald Trump’s broader war with California over dams, fish and who gets to control the state’s water.

The climate-driven water crisis is becoming a housing crisis as builders increasingly struggle to secure sufficient water supplies for new residential developments.

Now Japanese water infrastructure company Kubota Corp. aims to provide developers of suburban subdivisions with an unlimited source of water through a technology that extracts H2O from the air. In a deal announced Tuesday, Kubota is buying atmospheric water harvesters made by Delaware-based AirJoule LLC to be initially deployed in California and Texas.

Max Wilson, like water managers around the Colorado River Basin, spent Monday waiting for a new federal report outlining the river’s future — and future water cuts.

He watched the federal website where the report would be published, which appeared to be temporarily down. He sat in the city’s ninth-floor water office, talking about how Phoenix has prepared for this moment, while looking out on the Arizona Capitol and the sprawling metropolis below.

Mountain meadows cover a sliver of the Sierra Nevada, but they do outsized work for the rest of California. Crews are proving that this summer at Pickel Meadow, just north of Yosemite, where a restoration project is reshaping 3 miles of the West Walker River and its floodplains.

The trouble traces back 20 years, when Caltrans built a berm after a nearby landslide. The structure squeezed the river into a narrow channel that carved deep banks, cut water off from the floodplain and left much of the meadow dry. Removing it is the centerpiece of the work.