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Study: Drought-breaking rains more rare, erratic in US West Apr. 07, 2021 at 6:00 am MATTHEW BROWN, Associated Press Rainstorms grew more erratic and droughts much longer across most of the U.S. West over the past half-century as climate change warmed the planet, according to a sweeping government study released Tuesday that concludes the situation is worsening. The most dramatic changes were recorded in the desert Southwest, where the average dry period between rainstorms grew from about 30 days in the 1970s to 45 days between storms now, said Joel Biederman, a research hydrologist with the ...

Study: Drought-breaking rains more rare, erratic in US West MATTHEW BROWN, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 5 1of5FILE - In this March 10, 2021, file photo, a woman strolls along the beach under rain clouds in Seal Beach, Calif. Rainstorms grew more erratic and droughts much longer across most of the U.S. West over the past half-century as climate change warmed the planet, according to a sweeping government study released, Tuesday, April 6, 2021, that concludes the situation in the region is worsening.Jae C. Hong/APShow MoreShow Less 2of5FILE - In this Feb. 17, 2021, file ph...

BILLINGS, Mont. —  Rainstorms grew more erratic and droughts much longer across most of the U.S. West over the past half-century as climate change warmed the planet, according to a sweeping government study released Tuesday that concludes the situation is worsening. The most dramatic changes were recorded in the desert Southwest, where the average dry period between rainstorms grew from about 30 days in the 1970s to 45 days between storms now, said Joel Biederman, a research hydrologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Southwest Watershed Research Center in Tucson, Arizona. The con...

E-scooter. Photo: 123RF The defendant, Mitchell McIntyre, was on trial before Judge Christopher Field at the Auckland District Court today. McIntyre collided with Debra Christensen while riding an e-scooter on the footpath of Fanshawe Street in Central Auckland on 25 June, 2019. She had been getting off a bus at a bus stop when it happened. Christensen received injuries including facial contusions and lacerations and contusions to her hip, chest-wall, cheek, chin and hand. She said she was also diagnosed as having a concussion and needed a brain scan. While giving evidence, Christensen descr...

Over a span of two decades, warming temperatures have caused annual losses of roughly $5 billion for major food crops, according to a new study by researchers at the Carnegie Institution and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. From 1981-2002, warming reduced the combined production of wheat, corn, and barley—cereal grains that form the foundation of much of the world’s diet—by 40 million metric tons per year. The study, which will be published March 16 in the online journal Environmental Research Letters, demonstrates that this decline is due to human-caused increases in global tem...