The southwestern United States is in the midst of the worst megadrought in at least 1,200 years, researchers found.
A megadrought is defined as a drought lasting two decades or longer.
The drought that has enveloped southwestern North America for the past 22 years is the region’s driest since at least the year 800, according to a new UCLA-led study.
The region’s high temperatures and low precipitation levels from summer 2020 through summer 2021, the current drought has exceeded the severity of a late-1500s megadrought that previously had been identified as the driest such drought in the 1,200 years that the scientists studied...MORE
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