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Summer in March? Unusual Heat Wave Descends on Already Parched Western U.S.

The heat wave could further lower water availability in the region, which has seen staggeringly low levels of snowpack this year.

By Kiley Price

People spend time on Crissy Field Beach during warm weather in San Francisco on March 11. Credit: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images
Cars drive over the Central Arizona Canal, which delivers Colorado River water to Central and Southern Arizona, on Dec. 19, 2025. Credit: Kayla Bartkowski/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Colorado River Negotiators Are Nearly Out of Time and Snowpack

By Jake Bolster, Wyatt Myskow

The team of researchers studied this field site location of the Austrian Alps in August 2018. Credit: Arthur Broadbent

Reduced Snow Cover and Shifting Vegetation Are Disrupting Alpine Ecosystems, Study Finds

By Moriah McDonald

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