{"id":6426,"date":"2026-02-01T14:12:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T14:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=6426"},"modified":"2026-02-01T14:12:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T14:12:51","slug":"two-thirds-of-the-us-is-facing-drought-in-the-middle-of-winter-heres-why-scientists-are-worried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/02\/01\/two-thirds-of-the-us-is-facing-drought-in-the-middle-of-winter-heres-why-scientists-are-worried\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-thirds of the US is facing drought in the middle of winter. Here\u2019s why scientists are worried"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An unusual winter drought has gripped two-thirds of the United States, affecting every state except California and alarming scientists. Conditions usually characterized by heavy precipitation are instead seeing dryness that threatens water supplies and increases wildfire risks. A recent study warns that the climate crisis will continue to increase the frequency, severity, and reach of such droughts across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> January 21, 2026 <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/climate-change\/drought-us-states-snow-water-climate-b2904392.html\">independent.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unusual winter drought has gripped two-thirds of the United States, affecting every state except California and alarming scientists. Conditions usually characterized by heavy precipitation are instead seeing dryness that threatens water supplies and increases wildfire risks. A recent study warns that the climate crisis will continue to increase the frequency, severity, and reach of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-crisis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6429,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6426\/revisions\/6429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}