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Bioclimatologist Park Williams: Cool Drought

Today’s ongoing drought and how it compares with droughts in the ancient past.

Aired 01/07/2022

Our Land: New Mexico’s Environmental Past, Present and Future

Bioclimatologist Park Williams: Cool Drought

Clip: Season 5 Episode 24 | 1m 20sVideo has Closed Captions

Today’s ongoing drought and how it compares with droughts in the ancient past.

Park Williams is a UCLA bioclimatologist who studies drought and wildfire in the western United States. He spoke with correspondent Laura Paskus about today’s ongoing drought and how it compares with droughts in the ancient past. In this web extra they talk about New Mexico’s drought in the 1950s and how it’s different from what we continue to experience today.

Aired 01/07/2022

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Our Land: New Mexico’s Environmental Past, Present and Future is a local public television program presented by NMPBS

Bioclimatologist Park Williams: East vs. West

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How the dry areas in the U.S. are getting drier and the wet areas, wetter. (4m 9s)

Bioclimatologist Park Williams: Questions

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What the rest of us need to be asking when it comes to climate change. (2m 34s)

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