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A procession with a replica of the Our Lady of the Torrents, a virgin historically associated with drought, on March 26, 2023 in Spain. Photo: Emilio Morenatti (AP)It’s so dry in Spain, communities in the Catalan region asking for divine intervention.Parishioners in the Northeastern mountain village of L’Espunyola held a special mass and procession in honor of Our Lady of the Torrents, a local virgin associated with rain, in late March, the Associated Press reported. Villagers carried a statue representing the Lady on a…

As the world gets warmer and droughts grip cities from Madrid to Shanghai, it can seem like we’re headed for a Mad Max-style future where water is a scarce resource. We’re already starting to see a version of this as regular Californians make water cuts while movie stars use as much as they want. But what role, exactly, do the lifestyles of the rich and famous play in water shortages?Mississippi’s Water Crisis | Extreme EarthThat’s the question researchers set out to answer in a study published Monday in Nature…

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San Francisco Department of Public Works workers clean up a tree that fell on a SF MUNI bus after a storm passed through the area on January 10, 2023 in San Francisco, California.Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images)California has been slammed by storm after storm since late December, but it looks like the weeks of chaotic weather may finally be over soon.Experts predict that the back-to-back storms may be ending this week. “We’re finally getting through the parade of storms,” said Michael Anderson, a state climatologist,…

Forest and fog above Hoh River, from Spruce Nature Trail; Olympic National Park, Washington.Photo: VWPics via AP Images (AP)What should be evergreen hills and forests throughout the Pacific Northwest are now marred by large swathes of brown, dead trees.Fir trees across Oregon are dying from an ongoing drought plaguing much of the country. In a recent aerial survey, the U.S. Forest Service observed dead trees in about 1.23 million acres (over 1,900 square miles) of forest in Oregon and Washington, Columbia Insight…

Photo: Stephen Chernin (Getty Images)Vegetable prices in the U.S. are around 40% higher this year and experts are saying climate change has played a prominent role. Bloomberg isreporting that Arizona produces 90% of leafy greens in the U.S. from November through March each year, but crop production has been greatly affected this year by a drought forming from reduced water levels in the Colorado River.The decreasing amount of snow and rain has dwindled in recent years, moving into its 23rd year of drought, causing the…

A lagoon in the southern part of the Andes has dried up completely as the mountain region and the people living in it are struggling through a years-long drought.Read more... A lagoon in the southern part of the Andes has dried up completely as the mountain region and the people living in it are struggling through a years-long drought.Read more... FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content,…

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Sunrise on the dam in Mequinenza, Spain.Photo: Zowy Voeten (Getty Images)As the world faces an unfolding energy crisis and an ongoing climate crisis, a hydropower plant in Spain is going dark because of low water levels at the reservoir that powers it. The country has spent months in a major drought.The Mequinenza power plant, which is located in the Aragon region in the northeast of Spain, is the fifth-largest hydropower plant in Spain. Bloomberg reported this week that the power plant will stop operating for the first…

Recent hot and dry conditions have only fueled the seemingly endless drought that’s pummeling the U.S. for months. October saw higher-than-average temperatures and lower-than-average precipitation, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported this week.According to NOAA, the average temperature throughout the U.S. last month was 55.3 degrees Fahrenheit (13 degrees Celsius). This is about 1.2 degrees Fahrenheit above average, according to the report. A map of the year from January through October shows…