”For the first decade of the century, the Upper Missouri River basin was the driest it’s been in 1,200 years, even more parched than during the disastrous Dust Bowl of the 1930s," Darryl Fears reports for The Washington Post, citing a study. "The drop in water level at the mouth of the Missouri — the country’s longest river — was due to rising temperatures linked to climate change that reduced the amount of snowfall in the Rocky Mountains in Montana and North Dakota, scientists found."
