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NASA Says California Needs 11 Trillion Gallons of Water to Recover From Its Drought
NASA scientists say it will take 11 trillion gallons of water to replenish two of California's drought-starved river basins and help reverse the state's drought. That figure comes courtesy of measurements taken from NASA GRACE satellites, recently released by a team of scientists, which discovered an 11 trillion gallon shortage of water in the Sacramento and San Joaquin river basins. Combined, the two basins account for about 51 percent of California's water supply, according to the California State Water Resources...
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Breathtaking Photos Capture Couple's Wedding in Africa As Storm Clouds Gather
When award-winning wedding photographer Jonas Peterson traveled to Kenya to photograph a couple getting married there in late September, he knew their wedding ceremony would take place against a breathtaking backdrop. What he couldn't know was what conditions during the ceremony would be like in the east African nation's "famously unpredictable" weather. "There’s not really much you can do to prepare except keep an eye on the horizon and pray to the weather gods," Peterson told weather.com in an email...
The World's Largest Oil Spills
The Largest Oil Spills in History Nuclear meltdowns. Anthropogenic climate change. Chemical spills. Solid waste. Of all the damaging blows humans have dealt on the environment perhaps no other incident resonates more than the oil spill. The imagery can be gut-wrenching and the environmental impact irreversible. Take the Exxon Valdez oil spill, for instance. When the Exxon Valdez oil tanker spilled its keep on more than 1,300 miles of Alaskan coast in 1989 the 11 million gallons of oil killed...
Great Lakes Water Levels Recover Faster Than Ever Before
Talk about a speedy recovery. Three of the five Great Lakes recovered their water levels at record or near-record pace, with Lake Superior gaining 2.3 feet from January 2013 through November of this year, and Lakes Michigan and Huron increasing by 3.2 feet in that same period. That’s the fastest ever for Superior and the second fastest (after the 1950-51 season) for Huron and Michigan. “The levels of the Great Lakes go up and down all the time, that’s a...
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