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In 2015 and 2016 California faced one of its most severe droughts on record. This article looks at the challenge of climate change in the context of the Californian drought and its impact on local biodiversity. It is relevant to topics on the water cycle and water security, climate change and ecosystems under stress
- Volume 31, 2017/ 2018
- Climate change
- Resource security
- Water and carbon cycles/Earth’s life support systems
Francesca Quinn
The last ice age ended 11,000 years ago and since then, Earth’s climate has been relatively stable at approximately 14ºC. Over recent decades evidence of higher average temperatures, changing rainfall patterns, increasing sea levels, retreating glaciers and melting of sea ice and ice sheets has been recorded. Extreme weather events, including droughts, have become more frequent.
In 2015 the US state of California experienced one of the worst droughts in its history. This led to real concerns about longterm water security in the region. In October 2016, a quarter of California was lifted out of drought by autumn rains and by spring of 2017 the drought was largely over.
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