Green Blog: On Our Radar: A Parched Southwest

New projections by researchers indicate that dry spells will get progressively worse in coming decades in California, Nevada, the Colorado River headwaters region and Texas, putting greater stress on agriculture, ecosystems and a growing population. [Nature Climate Change]

A boom in marijuana growing is wreaking havoc on fragile habitats along the California coast, with farmers illegally cutting down trees, flattening mountaintops for greenhouses, siphoning water from streams and polluting watersheds. [The Los Angeles Times]

A sharp rise in automobile use has made fast-growing Asian cities the epicenter of global air pollution, with more than 2.1 million people dying prematurely from it in 2010, a new study in the Lancet says. [The Guardian]

North Dakota, in the midst of an oil and gas fracking boom, had the highest growth rate of any state in fiscal 2012, the Census Bureau reports.

On Christmas Eve, a trip down memory lane: remembering the ?Clean Coal Carolers.? [Treehugger]

Source: http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/24/on-our-radar-a-parched-southwest/?partner=rss&emc=rss

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