Saturday, November 19, 2022

US megadrought could upend life as we know it – just look to history

We don't know exactly how the current megadrought in south-western North America will end, but there are examples to learn from throughout history  

ENVIRONMENT 17 November 2022

By James Dinneen

Around the world, severe droughts are disrupting life for millions of people. In south-western North America and the Pacific coast of South America, worst-in-a-millennium megadroughts have created a slow-moving disaster, as reservoir levels decline and whole regions prepare to make unprecedented cuts to make up the shortfall.

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