For five years, Zay Lopez tended vegetables, hayfields and cornfields, chickens, and a small flock of sheep here on the western edge of Colorado’s Grand Valley – farming made possible by water from the Colorado River. Lopez has a passion for agriculture, and for a while, he carved out a niche with his business, The […]
New research showing how global warming intensifies extreme rainfall at the regional level could help communities better prepare for storms that in the decades ahead threaten to swamp cities and farms. The likelihood of intense storms is rising rapidly in North America, and the study, published Monday in theProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, projects […]
The early afternoon sun was pounding the parched soil, and Gus Whyte was pulling on his dust-caked cowboy boots to take me for a drive. We’d just finished lunch—cured ham, a loaf of bread I’d bought on the trip up, chutney pickled by Whyte’s wife, Kelly—at his house in Anabranch South, which isn’t a town […]
University at Buffalo chemists have shown that self-assembling molecular traps can be used to capture PFAS — dangerous pollutants that have contaminated drinking water supplies around the world. The traps are made from iron-based and organic building blocks that connect, like Legos, to form a tetrahedral cage. Experiments showed that these structures bind to certain […]
Western Colorado Water Purchases are Stirring up Worries About the Future of Farming
/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /KUNC (Greeley, Colorado) and Aspen Journalby Heather Sackett and Luke RunyonFor five years, Zay Lopez tended vegetables, hayfields and cornfields, chickens, and a small flock of sheep here on the western edge of Colorado’s Grand Valley – farming made possible by water from the Colorado River. Lopez has a passion for agriculture, and for a while, he carved out a niche with his business, The […]
New Study Shows Global Warming Intensifying Extreme Rainstorms Over North America
/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /InsideClimate Newsby Bob BerwynNew research showing how global warming intensifies extreme rainfall at the regional level could help communities better prepare for storms that in the decades ahead threaten to swamp cities and farms. The likelihood of intense storms is rising rapidly in North America, and the study, published Monday in theProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, projects […]
Australia’s Water Is Vanishing
/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /Bloomberg Greenby Matthew CampbellThe early afternoon sun was pounding the parched soil, and Gus Whyte was pulling on his dust-caked cowboy boots to take me for a drive. We’d just finished lunch—cured ham, a loaf of bread I’d bought on the trip up, chutney pickled by Whyte’s wife, Kelly—at his house in Anabranch South, which isn’t a town […]
Improving Atmospheric Forecasts with Machine Learning
/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Kimberlyn Velasquez /EOSby Kate WheelingAn efficient, low-resolution machine learning model can usefully predict the global atmospheric state as much as three days out.
Self-Assembling Traps Capture PFAS
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /WaterWorld MagazineUniversity at Buffalo chemists have shown that self-assembling molecular traps can be used to capture PFAS — dangerous pollutants that have contaminated drinking water supplies around the world. The traps are made from iron-based and organic building blocks that connect, like Legos, to form a tetrahedral cage. Experiments showed that these structures bind to certain […]
Conservative States Defend Water Rule From California-Led Suit
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Kimberlyn Velasquez /Bloomberg Lawby Ellen GilmerA coalition of conservative-leaning states went to court Monday to defend the Trump administration’s water jurisdiction rule.