For 1,000 years, homes dug into a desert cliff have sheltered olive farmers and sheep herders from summer heat and winter cold. But an exodus threatens its future. “We are left alone here.”
Tag: Drought
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Where Moms Hover Over Starving Children
With famine threatening Somalia, tiny sums can save kids’ lives.
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Can We Talk About How We Talk About the Weather?
When the barometer drops, the hyperbole rises, and meteorologists aren’t happy about it.
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Skipped Showers, Paper Plates: An Arizona Suburb’s Water Is Cut Off
Hundreds of homes outside the boundaries of Scottsdale can no longer get water from the city, now their owners are living a worst-case scenario of drought in the West.
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In a Drought, California is Watching Water Wash Out to Sea
Heavy storms have flooded parts of California, but the state has been unable to capture billions of gallons of water that are flowing unchecked into the ocean. Los Angeles is embarking on an ambitious new program to change that.