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Drought

Wilder Fires and Rising Waters, Climate Impacts Coming to America's Door

The Chelan Butte fire encroaches on homes in coastal Washington state. (Photo: Ben Brooks/cc/flickr)

Man-Made Climate Change Making Kindling of America's Forestlands

Lauren McCauley, staff writer

A rolling forest fire in Alberta, Canada, May 28, 2011. (Photo: Environment and Sustainable Resource Development/Government of Alberta)

Researchers found that wildfires will worsen exponentially until there are no longer enough trees to sustain them

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You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet: Western States Face Decades-Long Megadroughts

Nika Knight, staff writer

If fossil fuel emissions continue as usual, droughts lasting as long as 35...

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Amid Climate-Fueled Food Crisis, Filipino Forces Open Fire on Starving Farmers

Nika Knight, staff writer

Police and army forces in the Philippines unleashed bullets on a starving crowd...

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In Age of Extreme Weather, Industrial Farming Threatens Us All

Ahead of UN Climate Talks, Report Details World of Increasing Extremes

California Wildfires Rage in Shadow of Warming Planet

State of Emergency Declared as Wildfires Create 'Unprecedented Cataclysm' in Washington

A World on Fire: July Was Hottest Month Ever Recorded

Calif. Community's Techno-Fix to Drought: A Path Towards More Climate Problems?

Not 'If' But 'How': New Study Shows Why All Extreme Weather Is Climate Related

NASA: The Earth is Running Out of Water

Devastating Floods in Texas Just Latest Example of Global Weather Extremes

Farmers Cut Back as Beleaguered California Hit by Water Loss

Agriculture Gets Free Pass As California Adopts Mandatory Water Rules

In Drought-Ridden California, Activists Demand Repercussions for Nestlé

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350.org

Hunger Pangs of Starving Farmers Met by a Barrage of Bullets

Earthjustice

As California Goes Dry, Rep. Kevin McCarthy Puts His Head in the Sand

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Paul Rogers

A World in Trouble: Drought, War, Food, Flight

John Feffer

The Hunger President: Trump Doctrine Takes from Poor, Gives to the Rich

Alexandra Tempus

The Era Of Climate Migration Meets Violent Borders

Zephanie Repollo

The Kidapawan Standoff—The Real Face of the Global Climate Crisis

Javan Briggs

We Have the Right to Have That Basic Thing—it’s Water

William deBuys

Entering the Mega-Drought Era in America

Maude Barlow

California's Drought: The Canary in the Coalmine?

Laith Shakir

Think California’s Drought Is Bad? Try Palestine’s

Shepherd Bliss

Big Wine Fails to Dry Farm During California's Relentless Drought

Kate Aronoff

Crisis, Opportunity and Climate Austerity in Drought-Stricken California

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