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Reservoirs are a Major Source of Global Greenhouse Gases, Scientists Say

October 6, 2016September 28, 2016

Countries around the world are trying to get their greenhouse gas emissions under control — to see them inch down, percentage point by percentage point, from where they stood earlier in the century. If everybody gets on board, and shaves off enough of those percentage points, we just might be able to get on a … Read more

Why State's Water Woes Could Be Just Beginning

January 23, 2014

If you go back thousands of years, you see that droughts can go on for years if not decades, and there were some dry periods that lasted over a century, like during the Medieval period and the middle Holocene. The 20th century was unusually mild here, in the sense that the droughts weren’t as severe … Read more