Archive for July 15th, 2014

California Report Warns Worsening Economic Impacts Drought

Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 15th, 2014
National Geographic: A new scientific and economic report commissioned by California's state government warns that the ongoing drought crisis will cost billions in lost farm revenue and thousands of jobs, although wider impacts on the national food system are unlikely. The report also outlines ways officials could act now to avoid the worst effects of the drought. California's drought is now in its third year and is expected to worsen, thanks to record high temperatures and a low snowpack in the state's mountains....
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Storms Get Headlines, but Drought Is a Sneaky, Devastating Game-Changer

Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 15th, 2014
National Geographic: If droughts were hurricanes, people might pay more attention to them. Droughts can creep up on us with their prolonged absence of rain, and their effects often are seen as not much more than cracked ground in dry lake bottoms. Devastating storms can be sudden and meteorologically exciting, and they make great television. Droughts are deliberate-a relatively slow evolution in which it can be difficult to capture the devastation in any one moment. Yet droughts affecting several Western states and...
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