Article 542DW US south-west in grip of historic 'megadrought', research finds

US south-west in grip of historic 'megadrought', research finds

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Samuel Gilbert
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Intensified by climate change, the current 20-year arid period is one of the worst on record, with wide-ranging effects

When Ken Pimlott began fighting US wildfires at the age of 17, they seemed to him to be a brutal but manageable natural phenomenon.

Related: Dust bowl conditions of 1930s US now more than twice as likely to reoccur

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