Your weekend long reads🗞️
Good morning, friends of The Short List! It's John, here again with some of the best work of the week from the Paste BN Network. Well, the holiday season is rolling along. Here's hoping that all your gift purchases are being properly handled.
Today I want to shine the spotlight on "Downpour," a Paste BN investigation that detailed a stunning shift in the way precipitation falls in America. If you live east of the Rockies, it's not your imagination: More rain is falling, and it's coming in more intense bursts. In the West, meanwhile, people are waiting longer to see any rain at all. And as states rack up records for rainfall, flooding, droughts and wildfire, it's becoming clear our country's infrastructure – including vital sewer lines – was built for the climate of the past, not the one we're seeing today.
More from the "Downpour" series:
- Contaminating waterways: Excess fertilizer is slowly poisoning the Gulf of Mexico
- Deadly mudslides threaten more Americans as heavy rains loom over scorched lands
- A visual look: This is how climate change affects rainfall where you live
- What if you could hear climate change? Listen to music based on a century of rainfall data
There are more compelling reads below. 👇 Have a great weekend!