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Our Land: Rio Grande Spring Flow and Climate Change

Aerial view of a large body of water flanked by dried-up brush and trees.

May 8, 2020 – On this month’s episode of Our Land, we look back to 2018, when the Rio Grande dried in April after a warm, dry winter. At the time, correspondent Laura Paskus spoke with scientists whose research showed how climate change is already affecting the amount of streamflow in the Rio Grande that…

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Our Land: Jonathan Overpeck And Climate Change

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May 11, 2018 – Scientist Jonathan Overpeck has spent decades studying climate change and its impacts in the southwestern United States. Last year, he and Bradley Udall published a paper showing that between 2000 and 2014, flows on the Colorado River averaged 19 percent below the 1906-1999 average. One-third of the losses, they showed, were…

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