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The drought of 2012 narrowed navigation channels, forced lock closures, and caused dozens of barges to run aground on the Mississippi River along the Missouri shoreline. The resulting impact on navigation cost the region more than $275 million. The drought of 2012–2013 also threatened municipal and industrial water users along the Missouri ...
500 million years of climate change Ice core data for the past 400,000 years, with the present at right. Note length of glacial cycles averages ~100,000 years. Blue curve is temperature, green curve is CO 2, and red curve is windblown glacial dust (loess). Scale: Millions of years before present, earlier dates approximate.
In 2011 intense drought struck much of Texas, New Mexico and a large portion of the Southwest bringing much of the region its worst drought seen since the Dust Bowl years of the 1930s. Most of the drought in Texas ended or had it impacts ease by spring and summer 2012 as precipitation returned to the region, while the New Mexican drought ...
"The Drought Monitor was never intended to be a climate change indicator — it was meant to be a real-time assessment of drought conditions," said Mark Svoboda, director of the National Drought ...
Missouri, enduring over 50 climate disasters in the past decade and ranking among the top five states for climate change impacts, is at the forefront of our nation's climate challenges.
Missouri generally has a variety of seasonal humid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification Cfa), with cool winters and long, hot summers. In the southern part of the state, particularly in the Bootheel , the climate borders on a more mild-type humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa ), and in the northern third, the state transitions ...
Population growth. Since 2000, droughts have cost the U.S. around $160.8 billion, according to the NOAA.That figure jumps to $272 billion when accounting for destructive wildfires that are more ...
The time from roughly 15,000 to 5,000 BCE was a time of transition, and swift and extensive environmental change, as the planet was moving from an Ice age, towards an interstadial (warm period). Sea levels rose dramatically (and are continuing to do so ), land that was depressed by glaciers began lifting up again , forests and deserts expanded ...