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Even in an epically dry year, water flows into parched Colorado River delta

Seven years ago, a pulse of water on the Colorado River at the U.S.-Mexico border temporarily reconnected it to the Sea of Cortez, which meets the Pacific further south. Scientists used the so-called “pulse flow” to study what plant and animal life returned to the desiccated delta along with water. Armed with that knowledge, scientists […]