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Climate Change and Aerosol Pollution Made Drought Inevitable in the U.S. Southwest

July 9, 2025 Mark Lawrence

Cows graze in a dry landscape in Grapevine, Calif., at the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley on July 23, 2021.

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