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Drought and early heatwaves are laying the stage for a dry, hot summer in the western part of the United States. As of June 22, almost 91 percent of the West was under drought, with 55 percent suffering extreme or exceptional dryness, while two back-to-back heatwaves worsened soil and vegetation drying, raising the risk of wildfires.  (Photo : Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)  Meanwhile, water supplies are dwindling: according to the Associated Press, Lake Mead, the reservoir built by the Hoover Dam, is at its lowest level since it was initially filled in the 1930s, while California's...

Utah drought is so bad, the governor appeals for 'divine intervention' Utah Gov. Spencer J. Cox asks for prayers for rain in a video posted online. Image: twitter Amid the worst Southwestern drought in at least 400 years — and easily one of the worst sustained droughts in over a millennium — Utah Gov. Spencer Cox has asked the denizens of Utah to pray for rain: "By praying together and collectively asking God or whatever higher power you believe in for more rain, we may be able to escape the deadliest aspects of the continuing drought," Gov. Cox said on Thursday.  The 20-year dr...

School of Medicine class speaker Benjamin Cook inspired to ‘help somebody through a difficult time’ By Susan E.W. Spencer and Bryan Goodchild UMass Medical School Communications May 28, 2021 Incoming medical students should pay heed to what faculty tell them during orientation. Benjamin Cook, SOM ’21, from Andover, recalled being told by Michael Ennis, MD, professor of family medicine & community health and assistant dean for student affairs, “Look to your left and look to your right. One of you is never going to leave Worcester.” “From an early...

heat waves — if you are not experiencing them where you are, you are certainly seeing more of them in the news. According to the National Centers for Environmental Information, the year 2020 was the second warmest on record after 2016, with seven of the Earth’s warmest years occurring after 2014. The increase in the average global temperature is caused by the increase of "The atmosphere lets energy from the sun pass through, but greenhouse gases absorb and trap energy that the Earth would normally emit to space, leading to more energy and higher temperatures," says Benjamin Cook, climat...

3 signs the climate op-ed you're reading is full of it The Camp Fire burning in California in 2018. Image: U.S. Geological Survey / processed by Pierre Markuse Shoddy climate opinion articles are like zombies. Washington Post opinion section on May 14, was written by a Fox News contributor and political columnist at the Post with the headline, "An Obama scientist debunks the climate doom-mongers."   There's actually only one person implied as a "doom-monger" in the opinion article — the current presidential envoy for climate, John Kerry, who's not much of a doomist, but does aim to ...