California’s Drought Is So Bad, Its Mountains Rose Half an Inch

‘Water is heavy—ask anyone who screwed up the Ice Bucket Challenge. And California and the rest of the West Coast have precious little of it. The water is so depleted, it’s not weighing down the earth’s surface—and geologists have measured a rise of up to 15 millimeters at GPS stations across the West.’

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