Drought and dust across the Great Plains demand that science trump politics as the GOP conducts its 2012 election post-mortem
NOAA's State of the Climate report for October shows drought across 60.2% of the contiguous United States. Elsewhere, Pacific Ocean monitoring indicates that a weak El Nino system associated with wetter winters in Southern California and the Southwest has petered out into neutral conditions.
Las Vegas water manager Pat Mulroy predicts that a new report due out on the Colorado River and pending shortages "will be devastating."
November through February offer the best planting months in Southern California gardens.
Map of New York's evacuation zone in advance of Hurricane Sandy
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