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Megadrought

Avocado plantations in Petorca, Chile
Environment
Chileans have long struggled with a water crisis. Management practices are partly to blame, study says.
NASA's Airborne Snow Observatory flies above the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California.
Environment
How California is surviving its new water crisis
Oregon dry lakebedEmigrant Lake near Ashland, Oregon in October 2014. Current drought conditions have caused the lake to fall to less than 10 percent of its capacity.
Environment
The worst droughts in 1,000 years may be on the horizon for the American West