Park Williams asserts Western U.S. is experiencing its biggest drought in the past millennium | Sustainable LA Grand Challenge

Katerina Jowid
May 06, 2022
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Publication: L.A. Times

UCLA Expert: Park Williams: Associate Professor and Ladder Faculty, Department of Geography

Synopsis: Williams said that due to a combination of higher temperatures and insufficient rainfall, the American West is in the hottest and driest 23-year period in at least the last 1,200 years.

UCLA News: Williams notes that the soils of southwestern North America were more parched between 2000 and 2021 than in any other 22-year stretch since the 800s, surpassing a similarly arid period in the late 1500s.