Environmental News For The Week Ending 05June 2019
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Note: Because of the high volume of news regarding the coronavirus outbreak, that news has been published separately: The number of new cases of Covid continues to decline briskly in most countries around the globe, despite the prevalence of more infectious strains in most regions. Deaths attributed to the virus are also falling, albeit not quite as rapidly.
California s epic drought parches reservoirs, worries farmers
Leslie Kaufman and Eugene Reznik, Bloomberg
June 5, 2021
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1of6Folsom Lake, about 25 miles from Sacramento, in 2021.Bloomberg photo by David Paul MorrisShow MoreShow Less
2of6Folsom Lake, about 25 miles from Sacramento, in 2021.Bloomberg photo by David Paul MorrisShow MoreShow Less
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4of6Lake Sonoma, about 80 miles north of San Francisco, in 2021.Bloomberg photo by David Paul MorrisShow MoreShow Less
5of6Nicasio Reservoir, about 35 miles north of San Francisco, in 2021.Bloomberg photo by David Paul Morris Photographer: David Paul Morris/BloombergShow MoreShow Less
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There is dry, and then there is desiccated.
As any movie fan knows from the classic film Chinatown, California is an infamously thirsty place. But this year, even by its own standards, the state is shockingly, scarily parched. So far in 2021, the state has received half of its expected precipitation; that make