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Droughts

Ojai Valley, California

By Chad Ress,

Beginning in 2011, a historic drought struck California. It was officially declared over this April, largely because of rainfall in the northern half of the state. Parts of the south,…

Land of Sod

By Carolyn Kormann,

Driving through Beverly Hills one afternoon this spring, I pulled over at a corner lot with a tennis court, a pool, a guest house, twenty towering sycamore and redwood trees,…

“Today Is Better Than Tomorrow”

By Benjamin Busch,

What makes Argia different from other cities is that it has earth instead of air. The streets are completely filled with dirt, clay packs the rooms to the ceiling .…

Razing Arizona

By Christopher Ketcham,

It was a river of drought, low enough that we could walk alongside the rafts, our feet sinking into the silky bottom. We had put in near Moab, Utah, at…

Wil S. Hylton’s “Broken Heartland” (2012)

By Harper’s Magazine, on May 21, 2013

The looming collapse of agriculture on the Great Plains Read More

Dought stricken area (detail)

Art by Alexandre Hogue,

The effects of drought

By George Sibley,

The desert empire

By George Sibley,

The New York drought

By Harper’s Staff,

Behind the drought

By Stuart Chase,

A long drought

By Harper’s Staff,

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