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'We're Not Prepared': Experts Call for Doubling Levee Protections as California Faces Increasing Floods
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'Apocalyptic threat': dire climate report raises fears for California's future
The “apocalyptic threat” the governor described would present itself in myriad ways in a state prone to extreme weather events like drought and wildfires, said Amir AghaKouchak, an associate professor at the University of California, Irvine, and a researcher who contributed to the assessment.
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'Snow Droughts' Increasing in the Western U.S.
"The common ways to measure droughts are through precipitation, soil moisture and runoff," says Laurie S. Huning, an environmental engineer at the University of California, Irvine. Her most recent work adds another dimension to that by looking at water stored in snowpack.
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'Hottest Place On Earth' Has Been Hit By Heatwave
Researchers from the University of California, Irvine, found that surface temperatures were actually much higher in Iran's Lut Desert and the North American Sonoran Desert, which straddles the US-Mexican border, covering large parts of Arizona, California, and North-Western Mexico. ... Lead author Yunxia Zhao [graduate student, civil & environmental engineering], of the University of California, Irvine, said it is unclear whether or not climate change is driving up surface temperatures.