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The Hidden Desert:
Hotter temperatures, the extinction of Joshua trees, more dust storms, and more could become the new normal.
The Hidden Desert:
The shifting seasons bring changes to the Mojave Desert
The Hidden Desert:
The world's meteorologists agree: Death Valley holds the record for World's Hottest Place. Sort of.
Weather:
Desert writer Craig Childs wrote that the two easy ways to die in the desert are thirst and drowning.
Weather:
"Southern California and parts of the Central Valley are experiencing up to 72% increase in the frequency of extreme storms with a 7% increase in the intensity of the storms as well," says the Environment California Research & Policy Center.
Weather:
This past spring season (March to May) was the warmest across the contiguous U.S. since 1910, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists announced today.
Golden Green:
Texas is deep in drought and burning up, but, as happened in 1921, a hoped-for hurricane might proved even more deadly.
Weather:
There are two basic kinds of desert rainstorms and this isn't one of them.
Weather:
This month's breaking news from the Central Mojave: The Pisgah Crater, a cinder cone two miles south of Interstate 40 near Ludlow, California that has likely been dormant for at least 20,000 years, is not erupting.
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The nation's eyes were briefly on Phoenix, AZ this week, as that sprawling city found itself in the path of a violent, mile-high dust storm -- a haboob, from the Arabic word for "phenomenon."
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