<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Real Science]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[stevengoddard]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/author/stevengoddard/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[New Mexico Permanent Drought&nbsp;Update]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Five weeks ago, the LA Times reported that New Mexico was in an unrecoverable drought, which had permanently wrecked the ecosystem.</p>
<blockquote><p>Aug. 6, 2013</p>
<p>nowhere is it worse than in New Mexico. In this parched state, the question is no longer how much worse it can get but whether it will ever get better — and, ominously, whether collapsing ecosystems can recover even if it does.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-me-parched-20130806-dto,0,5922502.htmlstory">New Mexico is the driest of the dry &#8211; latimes.com</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Shocking imagery of the collapsing desert ecosystem has now arrived.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.abqjournal.com/261908/abqnewsseeker/more-rain-expected-in-new-mexico-through-saturday.html">Record-breaking rain swamps NM, forces evacuations | ABQJournal Online</a></p></blockquote>
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