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The Drying U.S. West

A serious drought has flared up across half of the United States—a familiar story for the past two decades.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story The Drying U.S. West.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using GRACE data from the National Drought Mitigation Center and data from the United States Drought Monitor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published December 11, 2020
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