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Posted May 10, 2022, 6:42 am
Fiona L.Q. Flaherty
/Cronkite News
A 20-plus year drought – coupled with decades of fire-suppression policies and relentlessly rising temperatures – are behind much of the change in Arizona's forests, calling into question how forest health can be restored.... Read more»
Posted Feb 18, 2022, 8:49 am
Fiona L.Q. Flaherty
/Cronkite News
The latest summary of climate data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association predicts Arizona’s climate will continue to warm, leading to rising temperatures, more intense wildfires, and ongoing drought.... Read more»
Posted Feb 17, 2022, 7:02 am
Jianjun Yin
/University of Arizona/The Conversation
A new report led by scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warns that sea levels are rising, and that will bring profound flood risks to large parts of the Gulf and Atlantic coasts over the next three decades.... Read more»
Posted Oct 7, 2021, 8:07 am
Ariana Figueroa
/Arizona Mirror
Experts in government, agriculture, water management and the environment stressed during a U.S. Senate hearing on Wednesday the danger that droughts fueled by climate change pose in the West, including the Colorado River Basin. ... Read more»
Posted Sep 23, 2021, 6:21 am
Matthew Renda
/Courthouse News Service
Scientists painted a grim picture of the changing climate and hydrological conditions in the American West during a virtual forum - while the recent dry patterns are part of a larger more extended trend, it is also impossible to overstate how dry and hot it has been in the last two years. ... Read more»
Posted Aug 23, 2021, 11:08 am
Nicholas Iovino
/Courthouse News Service
Climatologists forecast a 70% chance that La Niña conditions will return for a second year in a row this winter, which could bring some rain for coastal areas of the Northwest and more dry conditions for the Southwest.
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Posted Jul 16, 2021, 11:43 am
Matthew Renda
/Courthouse News Service
Forecasts for high temperatures and precipitation bode ill for the American West, already in the throes of a prolonged drought and attempting to quell hundreds of large wildfires scattered across nine states.
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Posted Apr 16, 2021, 12:38 pm
Matthew Renda
/Courthouse News Service
Blue skies will smile on the American West for the next several months, according to federal meteorologists — bad news for a region already mired in a multiyear drought. Currently, the entire state of Arizona is experiencing some form of drought. ... Read more»
Posted Nov 13, 2020, 12:12 pm
Allen H. Awfe
/Cronkite News
State and federal weather officials are predicting a warmer and drier than normal winter for Arizona, which would come on the heels of the driest monsoon ever recorded in the state.... Read more»
Posted Jul 21, 2020, 11:48 am
Haley Lorenzen
/Cronkite News
Strewn across parking lots, in rivers and washing up on beaches, disposable face masks, gloves and other personal protection equipment are turning up everywhere except where they should be – in the landfill.... Read more»
Posted Mar 2, 2020, 12:11 pm
Isabella Hulsizer
/Cronkite News
Last month was Earth’s warmest January on record, NOAA reports, and that was true in Arizona, where January 2020’s average temperature was 3.2 degrees above the historic average. ... Read more»
Posted Nov 27, 2019, 10:44 am
Jordan Evans
/Cronkite News
Another cold and wet week is setting up across Arizona, which, unfortunately, will affect the Thanksgiving holiday. The approaching storm looks to be the biggest to take aim at the state so far this winter season, making for messy holiday travel.... Read more»
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Posted Oct 11, 2019, 2:45 pm
Jordan Evans
/Cronkite News
Temperature data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration compiled by Climate Central show summers in Arizona will only get hotter thanks to climate change.
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Posted Sep 19, 2019, 12:03 pm
Leah Romero
/New Mexico In Depth
Climate change is likely to produce more dry years and more unpredictable growing seasons for farmers in southern New Mexico, as temperatures increase and the snowpack in northern mountains continues to decline.... Read more»
Posted Sep 19, 2019, 9:29 am
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
University of Arizona researchers helped create a state-of-the-art computer model that shows how a spike in carbon dioxide over 50 million years ago may have caused global temperatures to skyrocket — a "scary finding" that has major implications for Earth's future climate.... Read more»
Posted Jun 4, 2019, 1:11 pm
Melissa Robbins
/Cronkite News
The U.S. Drought Monitor recently reported that, for the first time in its nearly 20-year history, none of the contiguous states — including Arizona — was showing symptoms of severe or exceptional drought. ... Read more»