The California drought has claimed to be a big epidemic for this state of dreams. This drought alone has been said to put many residents in a panic of what's to become of their beautiful state, but many wonder just how this crisis began in the first place. Residents and other American’s thought of ways just how this possibly terrifying ordeal came to be. Some say it is manmade, others believe it is due to the environment while a few believe it is the way for the big businesses and the rich to gain
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California is currently experiencing major environmental obstacles. With changing climate and weather patterns, forest fires continue to devastate the state. Couple this with the depleting water supply the outlook for California appears grim. The article takes on the many aspects of each environmental challenge and follows them with solutions. As water becomes scarcer, technology advances are being made from utilizing wastewater to agriculture reduced irrigation. One unique solution presented by
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On top of ravaging storms and brutal disasters, no one wants to walk into the grocery store only to find that a case of water costs nearly fifty dollars. And after a year full of tragedy and despair due to numerous natural disasters all over the country, many Americans faced this harsh reality. Natural disasters, such as hurricanes, tornadoes, and wildfires place a debilitating amount of stress and financial strain upon those affected, and gouging the prices on basic necessities like food, water
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There lay a boy. Just above the flat, cloudy plane there lay a boy. Awhile he has been there, yes, but he spends most of his time here. At arrival he is always afraid as if he never was here; as if this place doesn’t exist, yet it does. At long last, he awakes. Rain, like cold steel, strikes his forehead and he begins to twitch. Raindrops trickle down onto his eyes in unison as he opens them, and with a thrust upwards - he sits. Confused and dazed, he remains in position. Like always, he notices
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Deserts are areas that receive very little annual precipitation, although it is generally considered that deserts are very hot and dry landscapes, there are many ore factors to what makes a desert. Although some deserts are very hot, with daytime temperatures as high as 54°C, other deserts have cold winters or are cold year-round. Most deserts, far from being empty and lifeless, are home to a variety of plants, animals, and other organisms, these plants, animals and organisms are specially adapted
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What is the water cycle? The water cycle is also known as hydrologic. The water cycle is the process in which water is continuously cycled. Evaporation, transpiration, condensation, precipitation, and runoff are the five major parts of this cycle. Evaporation is the process where water changes from a liquid to a gas or vapor. Evaporation is the primary part in the water cycle that moves from the liquid state back into the cycle as a gas. Studies have shown that 90% of the moisture in the
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Even though some would argue that one of the reasons for the California’s drought 2014-2015 is not global warming, Stanford Research proved that the abnormal atmospheric conditions connected with California’s current critical drought have most chances to occur under today’s global warming conditions rather than in the climate that existed before human released large amounts of gases and pollution due to industrialization. B) California’s drought 2014-2015- “man-made disaster”. Unarguably, human actions
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It is said that California is entering its fourth year of a record-breaking drought… Governor Jerry Brown declared a drought State of Emergency in January 2015 and imposed strict conservation measures statewide. (“California's Drought”, n.d.) an atmospheric and environmental sciences professor at the University of Albany stated that, It is obvious from what we can see from the half-million acres of parched and idle farmland to the swaths of receding reservoirs, California’s drought is
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Glaciers are melting, sea levels are rising, cloud forests are drying, and wildlife is scrambling to keep pace. It's becoming clear that humans have caused most of the past century's warming by releasing heat-trapping gases as we power our modern lives. Called greenhouse gases, their levels are higher now than in the last 650,000 years. We call the result global warming, but it is causing a set of changes to the Earth's climate, or long-term weather patterns, that varies from place to place. As
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What Is A Hurricane? In its simplest terms a hurricane is a storm system of very strong winds accompanied by clouds and heavy rain - which circles around a calm center. This calmness in the center of a hurricane, often referred to as the “eye of the storm” can literally lull people into a false sense of security; and thinking that the worst of the hurricane has passed they either open their doors and windows or worse venture outdoors, only to be caught out by the hurricanes second phase. Although
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