<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="margin: 14px 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b class="">Excerpt:</b> Since temperatures are projected to keep rising, it is likely the drought will continue for the near future – or fade briefly only to return, researchers say.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="margin: 14px 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The study covers an area stretching across nine U.S. states from Oregon and Montana down through California, New Mexico and part of northern Mexico.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="margin: 14px 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Daniel Swain, a UCLA climate scientist who wasn’t part of the study, called the research important because it provides evidence “that human-caused climate change transformed what might have otherwise been a moderate long-term drought into a severe event comparable to the ‘megadroughts’ of centuries past.”</p><div class="">
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