Climate change is contributing to drought in the American West even without rainfall deficits, scientists find
The Enterprise Bridge passes over a section of Lake Oroville that was nearly dry on Sept. 30, 2014, in Oroville, California. Credit: Andrew Innerarity/California Department of Water Resources Higher temperatures caused by anthropogenic climate change made an ordinary drought into an exceptional drought that parched the American West from 2020–2022. A study by UCLA and … Read more