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Tom's Mill Fire, 2017 Wind turbine factory, Jonesboro. There are concerns about the impact climate change will have on water levels in the state. According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), droughts pose challenges for water management and river transportation; if the spring is unexpectedly dry, reservoirs may have too little water during summer.
Atmospheric rivers could become stronger and have more impacts along the West Coast due to climate change. A new study shows how water rise and increased rainfall could impact residents who face ...
The Arkansas–White–Red water resource region is one of 21 major geographic areas, or regions, in the first level of classification used by the United States Geological Survey to divide and sub-divide the United States into successively smaller hydrologic units. These geographic areas contain either the drainage area of a major river, or the ...
The Arkansas Valley is a Level III ecoregion designated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the U.S. states of Arkansas and Oklahoma.It parallels the Arkansas River between the flat plains of western Oklahoma and the Arkansas Delta, dividing the Ozarks and the Ouachita Mountains with the broad valleys created by the river's floodplain, occasionally interrupted by low hills ...
The Dry Cimarron is not completely dry, but sometimes its water entirely disappears under the sand in the river bed. The Dry Cimarron Scenic Byway follows the river from Folsom to the Oklahoma border. The waterway becomes simply the Cimarron River after being joined by Carrizozo Creek just inside the Oklahoma border, west of Kenton, Oklahoma. [6]
List of rivers in Arkansas . For a list of dams and reservoirs in Arkansas, see List of Arkansas dams and reservoirs Rivers are listed by drainage basin, by size, and alphabetically. By drainage basin
Major drought episodes in the midwestern United States are associated with an amplification of the upper tropospheric subtropical (or monsoon) ridge across the West and Plains, along with a weakening of the western edge of the "Bermuda high". [34] During the summer, a southerly low-level jet draws moisture from the Gulf of Mexico.
Climate change has led to the United States warming by 2.6 °F (1.4 °C) since 1970. [3] The climate of the United States is shifting in ways that are widespread and varied between regions. [4] [5] From 2010 to 2019, the United States experienced its hottest decade on record. [6] Extreme weather events, invasive species, floods and droughts are ...